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.

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.

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.

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.