Last week I leafed through all of part 3 of Spheres of Sloterdijk and spent an hour or so reading bits of the difficult but fascinating book. One word that stuck in my mind was the “superinstallation.” I’m not quite sure but I think that Sloterdijk’s superinstallation refers to the contemporary art practice of the installation. It reminds me of Le Corbusier’s analogy of architecture as machines for living and the simulacra of Baudrillard.
I just finished watching part I of The Century of the Self, and interest was piqued by “Democracity,” a model city of the future at the Trylon and Perisphere of the 1939 New York World’s Fair and I thought of “Democracity” as an illustration to the superinstallation.
Photo: Trylon, Perisphere and Helicline photo by Sam Gottscho.