a sprawling trade show of everything in the world that you don’t - TopicsExpress



          

a sprawling trade show of everything in the world that you don’t need and yet may, at some irrational moment, feel compelled to buy. There are whole streets in the labyrinthine complex devoted to artificial flowers and inflatable toys, then come umbrellas and anoraks, plastic buckets and clocks. It is a heaving multi-storey monument to global consumption, as if the contents of all the world’s landfill sites had been dug-up, re-formed and meticulously cataloged back into 62,000 booths.
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 23:49:06 +0000

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