*Unlocked* 172. The Future's Not What It Used To Be Pt. 2

Contain Podcast

Continuation of Part 1. on Google architecture with a focus on the architectural history of McDonalds, Byung Chul Han’s Pais Interview: living life backwards, storyselling vs. story-telling: the death of narrative, and Ray Kroc’s corporate takeover, fast food political statements on genocidal conflict, private land-holding companies and cutting corners, Scriabin: the superiority of Painting vs. Music, gloom, bad taste, and futile showiness: Sheldon Cheney in 1930, tactical media: advertising, corporate seance, and white propaganda, garden atriums, Eichler houses, the death of Bandcamp, freedom of the machine (pt.5), Neoconservatism and its impact on commercial architecture of the 1970’s, South American Modern, possible higher standards of living reflected through space, when high art undergoes contact with the masses, idea becoming reality, Luis Barragan, Lawrence models Rick, Mac Tonight: from mass marketing icon to Bladee 333 and the Grifter Right, Buc-Ee's, Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies, and more. Video documentary up soon.