05-11-2014, 06:10 PM
we had ghost cities in china now there's ghost malls in america. Malls across America are leasing their vacant storefronts to data centers wow that's a first for me.
source: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-int...ping-malls
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The consumer is the hero of modernity, the very embodiment of our modern liberal values of self-direction and freedom of choice, and hence its central figure. We built this towering figure a fitting temple; more than that, we built thousands of them at the staggering rate of hundreds a year, during their heyday. We built shopping malls.
And since then, they've collapsed. Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal reported that malls across America are leasing their vacant storefronts to data centers. Internet shopping and brick-and-mortar stores have been positioned in public discourse as engaging in a vicious death match for some time now, giving the news a certain sense of poetic justice.
If malls are dying, then the internet is eating the decaying, hulking corpses of old consumption—the kind characterized by people physically maneuvering through space, together, as quickly or slowly as their feet will carry them—and sustaining itself inside them.
source: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-int...ping-malls
[Image: 1415131657788296.jpg]
The consumer is the hero of modernity, the very embodiment of our modern liberal values of self-direction and freedom of choice, and hence its central figure. We built this towering figure a fitting temple; more than that, we built thousands of them at the staggering rate of hundreds a year, during their heyday. We built shopping malls.
And since then, they've collapsed. Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal reported that malls across America are leasing their vacant storefronts to data centers. Internet shopping and brick-and-mortar stores have been positioned in public discourse as engaging in a vicious death match for some time now, giving the news a certain sense of poetic justice.
If malls are dying, then the internet is eating the decaying, hulking corpses of old consumption—the kind characterized by people physically maneuvering through space, together, as quickly or slowly as their feet will carry them—and sustaining itself inside them.