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No, it's just there already, in the seams, the interstices, the back-alleys and side-streets of our world.
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One perfect example is the movie HIGHLANDER, where the worldscape is our reality as a lattice of seams, a strange/mundane patchworld in which immortals live among us as liminal agencies, their battle to be The One taking place on the margins of our perception, in the back-alleys and car parks of New York (significantly interstitial spaces).
Notes on Strange Fiction: Seams Hal Duncan 2008
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It just goes to show that on a long enough timeline, your life and everything you love could one day end up being a low tech credit-default swap for the speculators working the back-alleys of our economic dystopia.
'Storage Wars': The Pinnacle Of Post-Crash Reality Television? Jason Linkins 2010
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It just goes to show that on a long enough timeline, your life and everything you love could one day end up being a low tech credit-default swap for the speculators working the back-alleys of our economic dystopia.
'Storage Wars': The Pinnacle Of Post-Crash Reality Television? The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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It just goes to show that on a long enough timeline, your life and everything you love could one day end up being a low tech credit-default swap for the speculators working the back-alleys of our economic dystopia.
'Storage Wars': The Pinnacle Of Post-Crash Reality Television? Jason Linkins 2010
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One perfect example is the movie HIGHLANDER, where the worldscape is our reality as a lattice of seams, a strange/mundane patchworld in which immortals live among us as liminal agencies, their battle to be The One taking place on the margins of our perception, in the back-alleys and car parks of New York (significantly interstitial spaces).
Archive 2008-08-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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It just goes to show that on a long enough timeline, your life and everything you love could one day end up being a low tech credit-default swap for the speculators working the back-alleys of our economic dystopia.
'Storage Wars': The Pinnacle Of Post-Crash Reality Television? The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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One gets the distinct impression that a simple stroll through the ever-changing streets of this shadowy city would reveal countless architectural similarities to the neon-lit back-alleys of Rapture itself.
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The loneliness of being an ex-pat in Tokyo has echoes of Lost in Translation; the nightmarish dystopia of strip clubs and back-alleys have kinship with David Lynch; and the cinematic realization of a bad trip are reminiscent of Requiem for a Dream.
Sebastian Doggart: Sundancing Into the Apocalypse Sebastian Doggart 2010
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The loneliness of being an ex-pat in Tokyo has echoes of Lost in Translation; the nightmarish dystopia of strip clubs and back-alleys have kinship with David Lynch; and the cinematic realization of a bad trip are reminiscent of Requiem for a Dream.
Sebastian Doggart: Sundancing Into the Apocalypse Sebastian Doggart 2010
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