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September 25, 2013 03:16 pm PDT
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Seinfeld meets JGBallard
Claire L. Evans examines the classic Seinfeld episode "The Parking Garage" as a "specifically Ballardian nightmare: the pornography of infinity, somehow contained within a New Jersey mall."Like the Unidentified Space Station (in this JG Ballard short story), which conceals, from the outside, its magnificent vastness, The Parking Garage becomes its own world, a replacementliterally, since they broke the apartment set down to build the mirror-garagefor the comfortable parameters of Jerry Seinfelds ordinary world.
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