junkspace

plural junkspaces

1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of Junkspace.

   The Edenic local, by contrast, is a cheap imitation, the product of a society that displaces itself, that produces not just space junk but also junkspace.

   2010, The Ecological Thought, →ISBN, page 51

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   We cannot grasp, remember, measure, or even code junkspace. It is chaotic and aseptic at the same time. It marks the acceleration of formlessness and mutation. As form withers we are left with a directionless, transitory, indeterminate, promiscuous, and repressive space. Ian Buchanan explains junkspace is the residue of capitalism, a space that has been reduced to a mass-manufactured good.

   2014, Adrian Parr, The Greening of Junkspace: A BIT of Hijacking Sustainability, →ISBN

   According to a new gospel of ugliness, there is already more junkspace under construction in the twenty-first century than has survived from the twentieth.

   2014, Dwayne Avery, Unhomely Cinema: Home and Place in Global Cinema, →ISBN, page 64

   The theme of disjunctive inclusion was already present in the project for the Ville Nouvelle France–Melun Senart (1987) where the new city development plan included bands that do not develop, or free development without any rules, without a plan: a sort of controlled portion of junkspaces.

   2016, Camillo Boano, The Ethics of a Potential Urbanism, →ISBN

plural Junkspaces

1. countableuncountableA highly commercialized environment that lacks any real value or meaning.

   Mall culture, airports, Starbucks, the Gap and so on, may seem strange and vacuous in New York, Paris or Cairo but in Dubai these types of non-places and Junkspaces are all that there appears to be.

   2004, Bidoun: A Quarterly Forum for Middle Eastern Talent

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   And the city as Junkspace vomits its detritus in the form of those unable or unwilling to pay the price for its maintenance. It isn't only money one needs to exist in Junkspace but the willingness and ability to spend in accordance with its regulations.

   2011, Ted Gournelos, David J. Gunkel, Transgression 2.0: Media, Culture, and the Politics of a Digital Age, →ISBN

   Patterns imply repetition or ultimately decipherable rules; Junkspace is beyond geometry, beyond pattern. Because it cannot be grasped, Junkspace can not be remembered. It is flamboyant yet unmemorable, like a screen saver, its refusal to freeze insuring instant amnesia. Circulation Junkspace is often described as a space of flows, but that is a misnomer; flows depend on disciplined movement, bodies that cohere.

   2012, A. Krista Sykes, Constructing a New Agenda: Architectural Theory 1993-2009, →ISBN

   As you recover from Junkspace, Junkspace recovers from you: between 2 and 5 a.m., yet another population, this one heartlessly casual and appreciably darker, is mopping, hoovering, sweeping, toweling, resupplying.

   2014, Jen Jack Gieseking, William Mangold, Cindi Katz, The People, Place, and Space Reader, →ISBN, page 24