building: the bleakness of a complete system

If commodities no longer dominate, this is because the salable product no longer carries the same importance, since history, technology, and art, as presented in the museums, have now become commodified. The principle of adjacent attraction is now operating at a societal level, imposing an exchange of attributes between the museum and the shopping mall, between commerce and culture.... The world of the shopping mall-- respecting no boundaries, no longer limited even by the imperative of consumption-- has become the world.

- Margaret Crawford, 30, "The World in a Shopping Mall," Variations on a Theme Park