>>5887990>>5888017>>5888022The concept I think of strangely when I recall the phrase SAY YES OR ROLL is a weird art world essay on Junkspace by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas. I think this was written back in 2002, and it predicted the "airbnb -ification" of everything, how human space would be conquered by this gentrification trend of amorphous and banal corporate sameness, cultural homogeneity and aesthetic sterility.
I think this is where the representation and inclusion, the "diversity"
>>5881954>>5881955>>5886576consent checklist forms inevitably lead, dissociated from culture and meaning
Formulated not as YES but ¥€$
>Junkspace, narrowly defined, is the opposite of what Koolhaas means by architecture. Lacking substance and form, “it is subsystems only, without superstructure, orphaned particles in search of framework or pattern.” But junkspace is not a technical term. It fuses with Koolhaas’s anxieties about suburbanization, Americanization, malls, air conditioning, casual Fridays, and vast cultural leveling to become something more symbolically vivid. Junkspace is “kindergarten grotesque,” “mini-Starbucks on interior plazas”>Junkspace pretends to unite, but it actually splinters. It creates communities not of shared interest or free association, but of identical statistics and unavoidable demographics, an opportunistic weave of vested interests. … Its financing is a deliberate haze, clouding opaque deals, dubious tax breaks, unusual incentives, exemptions, tenuous legalities, transferred air rights, joined properties, special zoning districts, public-private complicities. Funded by bonds, lottery, subsidy, charity, grant: an erratic flow of yen, euros, and dollars (¥€$). 