To the ground
Sunday, July 6th, 2008Reading: JG Ballard High Rise
Listening to: Theo Parrish First Floor
Iain Sinclair in the LRB on the razing of East London for the 2012 Olympics:
The scam of scams was always the Olympics: Berlin in 1936 to Beijing in 2008. Engines of regeneration. Orgies of lachrymose nationalism. War by other means. Warrior-athletes watched, from behind dark glasses, [...]