Mike Albo on Los Angeles’s The Grove shopping mall:
The Grove is everything that is horrible and spectacular about our brand-saturated American lives. It’s a living version of every pretentious theory you may have read back in grad school: a facsimile of a space, a scripted zone, a generic city, a vituperative quote by Baudrillard or Deleuze. But it’s also totally great!
This statement perfectly encapsulates my own feelings about The Grove.
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