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This summer even the rubbish-strewn no-place of an underpass under a main road will be transformed into a Folly for a Flyover.
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The work is divided into six scenes, as good as any way to encompass the large amount of landmarks (the work) and territory ("...the 'good place' of speculative explorations and the 'no-place' that is revealed through critical agency") that the exhibition lays out.
James Scarborough: A Meta-Narrative for the "Sharjah Biennial 10: Plot For A Biennial," Sharjah, United Arab Emirates James Scarborough 2011
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This summer even the rubbish-strewn no-place of an underpass under a main road will be transformed into a Folly for a Flyover.
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The work is divided into six scenes, as good as any way to encompass the large amount of landmarks (the work) and territory ("...the 'good place' of speculative explorations and the 'no-place' that is revealed through critical agency") that the exhibition lays out.
James Scarborough: A Meta-Narrative for the "Sharjah Biennial 10: Plot For A Biennial," Sharjah, United Arab Emirates James Scarborough 2011
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That utopian no-place allows us to imagine impossible solutions for the many real problems we face daily.
Avatar Meets Garden of Eden Angela Himsel 2010
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That utopian no-place allows us to imagine impossible solutions for the many real problems we face daily.
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“The name America, for example, very probably represents not just a tip of the hat to Amerigo Vespucci but also a multilingual pun that can mean both “born new” and “no-place-land” – a playful coinage that seems to have inspired Sir Thomas More to invent his new world across the ocean, one meaning of which was also “no-place”: Utopia.”
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That was where the music and the drugs were supposed to take you, too: to timeless, orgasmic no-place described by religious mystics.
Twenty-Five Years Later, We're Still Living In Woodstock Nation 2008
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They are therefore held and comprehended from the outset in the topos outopos placeless place, no-place place in which our experience of being-in-the-world is situated.
Archive 2008-05-01 Nicola Masciandaro 2008
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They are therefore held and comprehended from the outset in the topos outopos placeless place, no-place place in which our experience of being-in-the-world is situated.
Heart and Head at Kalamazoo, or, The Displacement of the Entirely Out of Place Nicola Masciandaro 2008
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