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links for 2008-01-03: population density

I am your density – Adam Greenfield first in a series of essays about urban dystopia. Introduction to the series here. (tags: dystopia Adam-Greenfield population urban JG-Ballard)

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Ballardian Binge

Ballardian has pumped up the volume this week, with a transcript of a conversation he did with Robert McCrum at the Institute of Education, London. A-and they finally get to talk to the man himself. Amusingly, it begins with an … more…

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What Kafka Knew

(DV) Rodgers: What Kafka Knew It came to me chillingly while I was reading Kafka’s stories that if my personal agonies and frustrations could be displayed using a sort of meter that measured their emotional intensity, the graph thus plotted … more…

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