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the traffic of the spectacular
Narrative structure, AE Fennel has always believed, is the trunk route of the spectacle. Free flow of the spectacular is as neccessary to a well-built secondary world as it is to a well-run modern state. Therefore, in every “story” our … Continue reading
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the vacuous-realist image at the Ambiente Hotel
Guests enjoy a drink & a discussion in the back bar. Cars may now be parked! Left: members of the 1935 Temporary Architectonics Committee (Closed) discuss Alyssa Emmelin Fankel’s theory of the vacuous-realist image at an informal workshop during the … Continue reading
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the library at the Ambiente Hotel
For some years a sub-basement beneath the hotel’s parking facility was used to store texts generated by the guests. These, ranging from thin volumes of verse to literary horror novels the thousand pages of which might be read in any … Continue reading
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“windows” in the 121/125 stub corridor
Elements of the Theory Cadre believe that the structure of the hotel is rather older than appears. Speculation centres on the short corridor behind rooms 121 to 125, which is reached at one end from the rear stairwell & from … Continue reading
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room 121 at the ambiente hotel
While endeavouring to stamp down the cracked & buckled lino in the first floor corridor I heard voices from Mrs Decateur’s old room, number 121. When I put my ear to the door, they stopped. It was Tuesday, & the … Continue reading
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more on the Theory Cadre
B writes, of my recent post the Theory Cadre in Snowdonia, “Mike, although a picture is mentioned, there’s no picture here.” Yes, B, there is a picture. But the Theory Cadre, unwilling to give away anything of itself even in … Continue reading
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the Theory Cadre in Snowdonia
In its earliest years, Michael Jackson & Mickey Rourke committed the Ambiente Hotel’s shadowy but powerful Theory Cadre to a regime of Crowleyism, mechanical engineering & systemic self-doubt. This docufictional image restages a crucial moment from the 1948 May Day … Continue reading
Filed under the Theory Cadre at the Ambiente Hotel
running makes me feel good but
…this is just about enough to put you off for ever. Why can’t the media leave me to experience my own life ? Why can’t they just fuck off out of my head, & leave me my own reasons for … Continue reading
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the name of the roads
Someone got here yesterday by typing “If you had to name your own city what would you call it ?” Here at the Ambiente Hotel’s retirement wing, we are all up to competition standard at naming our own city. I’d … Continue reading
