#heterotopia

[obsessedbyneon]

Revolving City - post pandemic, post share non-architectural competition entry, 2020 (link)

[tragictaleofvolimidia]

My opinion: Yukio Mishima doesn't fit into the "Dai-Nippon Gothic" aesthetic. Mishima's writing is suffused by sunlight and healthy, powerful bodies, symbolic opposites of what "gothic" makes us feel. Mishima's writing is the sea under blue skies and the Ise Grand Shrine. Gothic is disease, frail bodies, lightless spaces.

The difference is that Mishima was actually a fascist and believed it was beautiful, while the Dai-Nippon gothic aesthetic uses imperialist imagery as a form of grotesque violence, mixed up with disease and perversion. Mishima's view on death can shade into this but there's a disconnect because in the gothic aesthetic, it's an outsider's perspective on fascism. Fascism as excessive violence, extravagant criminality, a heterotopia where everyday morality is reversed.

It would be wrong to reduce "Dai-Nippon Gothic" to the restrictive label 'antifascist' but I don't think real fascism can mix coherently with the aesthetic.

Writers who the "Dai-Nippon" aesthetic would do well to appropriate --- Ranpo, Yumeno Kyūsaku, maybe Izumi Kyōka, definitely much of the work of Jun'ichirō Tanizaki.

Of course, recontextualized images of Mishima can be appropriated but it's good to remember they're being twisted away from their original meaning

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

‪H e t e r o t o p ia‬ ‪@artsofexistence.bsky.social‬

“There’s a planet,’ said Spike, ‘made of water, entirely of water, where every solid thing is its watery equivalent. There are no seas because there is no land. There are no rivers because there are no banks. There is no thirst because there is no dry.

‘The planet is like a bowl of water except that there is no bowl. It hangs in space as a drop of water hangs from a leaf, except that there is no leaf. It cannot exist, and yet it does. I tell you this so you know that what is impossible sometimes happens.”

― Jeanette Winterson, The Stone Gods

[gothicseverance]

Whether deliberately or as the result of circumstances, the Gothic subject’s experience of loss involves an inevitable act of ‘crossing over’ into a heterotopic, unheimlich space—one that is at once familiar and unfamiliar, real and unreal.

—Toward a Multicultural Gothic Aesthetics

[house-in-the-cerulean-sea]

You know what charons crossing just in its functionality is definitely a liminal space right? But the whole place is designed with so much love and dedication that it's actually the exact opposite! How brilliant is that? The entire book takes this concept of passing on our through somewhere but instead of just passing like on an airport or wherever you stay! Make this liminal space a home and i really like that.

[praisetheneonsun]

thermoplastic escape

[surrogatereality]

your bedroom

‘your bedroom’ is a short repeating gif that pries on the comfort and familiarity of the bedroom. The AI generation creates an unnatural and jarring rendition of what a bed room is.

[goblindelacreme]

Hometown gothic