BuyOrBeware.com v. 1.07

From Rhizome Artbase
2001
Description

Dear Consumer,
If you too have given up on the MODERN WORLD:
the gangs, crime, diseases, mosquitoes, elderly people who ride buses all day long, unsafe drivers on cellular phones, drug-fiends, rapists, cholesterol, complicated banking problems, traffic, noise, ozone-depletion and tacky white-gravel driveways,
please try this brand-new alternative:
www.BuyOrBeware.com, THE MALL OF THE FUTURE!
Climate-controlled, clean, friendly, and guaranteed to normalize any aberrant behavior through constant surveillence and healthy consumerism!
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BuyOrBeware.com takes place in a mall.
It is a darkly satirical piece which takes aim at current consumer culture and the old utopian claims of the Internet, and describes a world in which corporations have become our governing bodies, and shopping malls our nation-states. I could tell you more of what you're in for, but I think perhaps you should find out yourself.
Or better yet, go outside and get some sunshine.
You are looking a little pale.

Andrew Venell
11 July 2001
Legacy descriptive tags
Andrew Venell, The Mall of The Future, Walter Benjamin
Attribution: Andrew Venell
Virtual, utopia, surveillance, public space, postmodern, Participatory, Narrative, Internet, HTML, Flash, email, digital, Conceptual, commercialization, Animation
Attribution: Rhizome staff
Metadata
Variant History
outside link
2001
Andrew Venell
static files
11 July 2001
cloning
Rhizome staff