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Throwback Thursday (on Friday) - Guts Galore/January 2026@RADAR615

Hypermoderism/Supermodernity-
an anthropological concept (1992) describing a further step from post-modernism/deconstructivism as an overwhelming excess of time, space, and information often associated with the term ‘non-places.’

excesses:
-overabundance of free time (as distinguished from modernism’s ‘abundance of free time’)
-factual overabundance (as associated with an acceleration of historical time)
-spatial overabundance (the abolishing of distance by electronic media and transportation)
-an excess of self-reflexive individuality or search for personal identity
-material overabundance

* The Acceleration of History: an inundation of continuous information and global history in real-time that it becomes nearly impossible to process it collectively
* The Solitary Individual: Paradoxically, despite being hyper-connected by technology and mass transit, individuals experience increased feelings of anonymity, alienation, and solitude.
* The Spectacle of Place: Supermodernity reduces exoticism and local specificities to two-dimensional spectacles (such as viewing a local village merely as a theme-park attraction while speeding past on a highway)…🤔

Psychogeography, according to Guy Debord (1955), is a study of how geographical environments, particularly urban landscapes, affect human emotions, instincts, and behavior. It explores how built spaces shape our psychology, often using walking and drifting to bypass familiar, mundane routes.

Core Concepts
* The Dérive (The Drift): The foundational method of psychogeography. It involves an unplanned, destinationless wander through a city or environment, allowing your curiosity and the surrounding atmosphere to dictate your route rather than strict efficiency.
* Mapping the Unseen: Traditional maps focus on physical structures and efficiency. Psychogeographic “mapping” visualizes emotional landscapes—capturing places that feel isolating, vibrant, nostalgic, or eerie.
* The Flâneur: A precursor concept representing the detached, observant city wanderer, further developed by Situationists into a more aggressively charged and emotionally engaged exploration of urban spaces.

Practical Application
* Combatting Urban Automaton: It breaks the autopilot mode of daily commutes, prompting you to observe architecture, hidden alleyways, and sensory inputs to reconnect with your immediate surroundings.
* Urban Exploration (Urbex): Often overlaps with psychogeography, encouraging individuals to access restricted, abandoned, or overlooked spaces to uncover the hidden history and atmosphere of an area.
* Parkour (The Movement Discipline): Originating in France, parkour is a training discipline where practitioners (called traceurs) use their bodies to overcome physical obstacles in the most efficient, fluid, and direct way possible.

More on a sense of place, and just wtf am I…?

Michel Foucault’s ‘Heterotopias’ (1967):
* Heterochronies: Spaces tied to slices in time that deviate from traditional temporal flow. (e.g., museums, which contain infinite time, or cemeteries, which represent the accumulation of time).

* Juxtaposition: Areas that can place several incompatible spaces and timeframes into a single, localized area. (e.g., a theater stage or a traditional garden).

* Crisis Heterotopias: Spaces reserved for individuals experiencing a crisis in relation to society (e.g., asylums, psychiatric clinics, or retirement homes).

* Heterotopias of Deviation: Spaces designated for individuals whose behavior deviates from the required norms (e.g., prisons, juvenile detention centers).

* System of Opening and Closing: These spaces are not entirely accessible; they often require specific permissions to enter or involve forced isolation.

* Function of Illusion or Compensation: They either create an illusion of perfection that exposes every real space as flawed (a mirror), or they construct an organized, flawless alternative to our chaotic world (colonies or well-planned societies). 🤔

In Non-Places (1992), French anthropologist Marc Augé introduces the concept of the “non-place,” a space of transience and anonymity like airports, highways, and supermarkets, contrasting it with traditional “places” rich in history and social life… is there a parallel to what cites and even neighborhoods are becoming/have become…? 🤔

In Society of the Spectacle (1967), Guy Debord puts forward that in contemporary society, social life has been replaced by its representation- that images and commodities dominate human relationships and consciousness. 🤔

(gasp*….pearl clutch**….)

TODAY, like, THIS AFTERNOON! 3-6p at RADAR615- food art performance creative stations community!!! WOW! Please bring a non-perishable food to share for the food/awareness drive for THE STORE NASHVILLE!

Last but not least for our artist introductions, the director of RADAR615 himself, Lain York!

Lain York is a native of Nashville whose work continues to reference images from our collective sense of history. His latest works are automatic drawings of imagery he drags out of his personal unconscious and any sense of our collective unconscious. It is an exercise in uncovering timeless, primordial images that resonate with Lain.

Lain’s art-making practice has been influenced by an indirect method of using sculptural and drawing strategies to make paintings.

“I take this operation to mean tying myself into a collective conscience that goes below the surface of what I have been reading as cultural practices associated with a mosaic of individuated human communities and digging into its most basic expressions and engagement.”

Save the date, April 26th from 3-6pm at RADAR615!!!

Chelsea Scott/‘Generational Trauma’ 2025…new exhibition, What Do You See, by Healing Arts Project, now up at the Kennedy Center on Vanderbilt campus

Jansen Buchanan/‘A Fragile Grip’ 2025…new exhibition, What Do You See, by Healing Arts Project, now up at the Kennedy Center on Vanderbilt campus