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Article! also Yay! (Patreon)

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2017-12-15 23:42:49
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Hey guys, I wanted to share this article I wrote a little while back for Jacobin (sadly Architectural Digest only wants articles from me about home decorating #fails, leaving the more esoteric stuff to whoever will take it!!) about some critical ideas about McMansions and Postmodernism. This is the article that underlies most of my argument for the paper (see attached) I posted about a few days ago. 

Finals are over which means it's time to return to #content. Thank you for your patience! 

Also Yay! Patreon backed down on the fee changes!!!! WOOO!

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McMansion, USA

I often tell interviewers who ask me to define the term "McMansion" that McMansions are like obscenity: you know it when you see it. Like beauty (and obscenity), McMansions seem to be in the eye of the beholder. The simplest way to define a McMansion is: a poorly designed, poorly executed, oversized house.

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Misha Grifka

I finally got to read the article and I loved it! It was actually helpful for my own research too (don't worry, I'm in video game studies, not gonna steal any job spots), since I've been looking for sources on space and characterization of space.

Anonymous

Love the parts about choosing a house based not on your own family's needs, but on who you think you can sell it to later, and the huge spaces for entertaining and showing off wealth, which hardly get used.