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hakusan / japan / may 2016

Taipei

Walking is the best way to explore and exploit the city: the changes, shifts, breaks in the cloud helmet, movement of light on water. Drifting purposefully is the recommended mode, tramping asphalted earth in alert reverie, allowing the fiction of an underlying pattern to reveal itself.

Lights Out For the Territory - Iain Sinclair

Approaches to climate change

It is easy to become overwhelmed in the face of all the reports and articles related to climate change and what is required of us to mitigate an increasingly bleak future. Yet I want to share a few pieces that I have read in the last few weeks that offer some different ways to think about, look at and tackle climate change:

Rebecca Solnit writes of continuing climate change inaction as a form of violence; violence inflicted on the have nots by the haves.

How judicial intervention would depoliticise climate change, restore democracy and protect citizens from human right violations.

David Holmes interviews Dan Bloom about the rise of cli-fi, a new genre of climate fiction, and how it could raise the profile of climate change issues.

And artist Isaac Cordal's tiny sculptures draw attention to rising sea levels in his series "Waiting for Climate Change". These installations perfectly capture the inertia shown by decision makers in the face of climate change.

Redefining the high street

Guy Rundle As High Street dies, its time to build a new main street

Why do we need a High Street at all? Why should it be a contiguous line of shops? And why should shopping define the centre of a community anyway?

To have every community everywhere defined by having a group of shops at its centre is the triumph of bourgeois civilisation, the expression of life as a matter of buying and selling. Now that it has started to break down, we should take the opportunity to refashion the places we live, more radically. We should simply abandon the idea that the high/main street should be a row of shops, and start to see it as a place of multiple uses.

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Walking across the world, a writer discovers Car Brain.

The Parking Garage calls forth the precise cocktail of anxieties Ballard traded in: repetitive and abandoned landscapes, pathological detachment from other people, and an alienation from architecture and cities so vertiginous that it becomes impossible to distinguish from transcendence. [...]

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