“The past, whether Renaissance Italy or ancient Egypt, is reassimilated and homogenized into its most digestible form. Desperate for the new, but disappointed with anything but the familiar, we recolonise past and future. “
— J.G. Ballard “The Atrocity Exhibition”.
He was a clever bastard, and it’s a shame he’s gone.
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