Main Hall of mirrors in a private quarter: an exquisite machine producing dissociative identity disorder all day and night, a katoptronic horror.
Lumpen Orientalism gathers the fragments of a lost civilization, the decaying parts of a breathing animal _ the Middle East. Named after a term suggested by China Miéville, Lumpen Orientalism captures an anomalous fascination with the Middle East and Asia in a similar way to the mongrel visions of Gilles Deleuze, H. P. Lovecraft, Gaëtan Clérambault and William Beckford in order to tackle this enigmatic monstrosity.
Posted by Kristen Alvanson at Saturday, November 18, 2006
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