3 documents
e-flux Criticism
Posted: September 8, 2020
Category
Migration & Immigration, Sexuality & Eroticism
Subjects
Japan, Memory, Environment, Biennials
e-flux Criticism
Posted: October 25, 2019
Category
Technology, Nature & Ecology
Subjects
Artificial intelligence, Environment, Futures, Censorship, Japan
# 100
The Imperial Ghost in the Neoliberal Machine (Figuring the CIA)
Koichiro Osaka
At Sunshine 60, a dark shadow lurks in the foundations of the bright, lively shopping mall. The reverberating voices of happy children and families on vacation dissipate into the vacuum of history, created by the ghost of an ill-fated epoch. Although it was built to reflect a successful economy (utilizing the best technology of the time to instill great pride), the mall’s structure ironically mirrors the violent totalitarianism of its past. Previous machinations of mass control remain corporeally present in the form of this building, albeit camouflaged in other modes of manipulation, while they continue to shift and coerce under new terms of power. Consumerism’s salute to imperialism!
e-flux Journal
Posted: May 17, 2019
Category
Colonialism & Imperialism
Subjects
Ghosts & Spirits, Neoliberalism, Police & Prisons, Cold War, Japan