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名詞

Junkspace (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 Junkspaces)

1. A highly commercialized environment that lacks any real value or meaning.
   • 2004, Bidoun: A Quarterly Forum for Middle Eastern Talent:

     Mall culture, airports, Starbucks, the Gap and so on, may seem strange and vacuous in New York, Paris or Cairo but in Dubai these types of non-places and Junkspaces are all that there appears to be.

   • 2011, Ted Gournelos, ‎& David J. Gunkel, Transgression 2.0: Media, Culture, and the Politics of a Digital Age, ISBN 1441154337:

     And the city as Junkspace vomits its detritus in the form of those unable or unwilling to pay the price for its maintenance. It isn't only money one needs to exist in Junkspace but the willingness and ability to spend in accordance with its regulations.

   • 2012, A. Krista Sykes, Constructing a New Agenda: Architectural Theory 1993-2009, ISBN 1616890827:

     Patterns imply repetition or ultimately decipherable rules; Junkspace is beyond geometry, beyond pattern. Because it cannot be grasped, Junkspace can not be remembered. It is flamboyant yet unmemorable, like a screen saver, its refusal to freeze insuring instant amnesia. Circulation Junkspace is often described as a space of flows, but that is a misnomer; flows depend on disciplined movement, bodies that cohere.

   • 2014, Jen Jack Gieseking, ‎William Mangold, & ‎Cindi Katz, The People, Place, and Space Reader, ISBN 1317811887, page 24:

     As you recover from Junkspace, Junkspace recovers from you: between 2 and 5 a.m., yet another population, this one heartlessly casual and appreciably darker, is mopping, hoovering, sweeping, toweling, resupplying.