Dezeen : Neom touted as host for 2034 World Cup https://www.dezeen.com/2023/09/05/neom-2034-world-cup-host/ #Architecture #SaudiArabia #Football #Neom #all

Ausgelesen. Eindeutig ein Buch für Freund*innen kleiner Schnipsel und Momente, die entlang der fetten Plots passieren. Die neuronalen Verbindungen kriegen da richtig schön was zum Britzeln und Fitzeln und Träumen.

Es bleibt ein großes "Häh?" zurück, aber eins das wohltut.

Und seltsame, lebendige Nachbilder. 🖤

#LavieTidhar #Neom

"Somewhere between Bethlehem and Mecca lay Neom, city of futurity, where fortunes are made and faiths are lost."
#LavieTidhar

(#Neom, 2022, page 180)

Musings of a giant mecha

"'Maybe we are all going to be reborn now', Esau said happily. 'I often thought of becoming something humble, like a toaster on Mars. It must be so joyful, making toast that people find a joy in eating. Good friends of mine went to Mars, you know.'"
#LavieTidhar

(#Neom, 2022, page 173)

"'Jackals not ... soldiers,' the jackal said with disgust. 'We deserters.'

'You didn't want to fight?' Saleh said.

'They make us speak,' Anubis said. 'We say, screw you.' Its tongue lolled. The other jackals howled laughter."

#LavieTidhar

(#Neom, 2022, page 31/32)

Dezeen : Working on The Line a "tricky argument" for studios boycotting Russia says Wolf Prix https://www.dezeen.com/2023/08/24/wolf-prix-the-line-neom-interview/ #CoopHimmelb(l)au #Architecture #SaudiArabia #Interviews #WolfDPrix #TheLine #Neom #all

"We were excavating in Dahab [...] It used to be a robotnik nest during the second, no, maybe the third war. You must have seen the satellite pictures of Dahab, right? It had a terrorartist attack in the fourth war and the whole place is suspended in a sort of still-ongoing explosion, but if you wear a null suit you can navigate through the temporality maze - anyway. We were digging. Dahab's full of valuable old stuff, it's just hard to get."
#LavieTidhar

(#Neom, 2022, page 18)

"Another shop, this one renting out luxury watches. [...] [P]eople wore watches to tell the world they were rich, successful, that they were going places. That they took time ~seriously~.

Mariam did too. She was paid by the hour."

#LavieTidhar

(#Neom, 2022, page 6)

"The people who lived on Al Mansoura [some city street - Bö.] were the upwardly-mobile, and they lived on hope. Hope was a powerful drug."
#LavieTidhar

(#Neom, 2022, page 6)

"The city of Neom in these pages is ~old~.

The city of Neom ~today~ remains mostly the dream of a Saudi prince, a futuristic wonderland backed by a marketing video.

You can go visit it, though. Neom Bay Airport (IATA: NUM, ICAO: OENN) is real and there's even a weekly flight from Riyadh.

There's not much else there right now, but then again, who knows? In time there might be flowers and, if so, a robot might come to the souq one day to buy a flower."
#LavieTidhar

(#Neom, 2022, page 1)

"A deliciously inventive wild ride through a future Middle East full of unexpected wonders: dutiful jackals, traumatized robots, terrifying terrorartists, caravans of elephants and great slinkying robotic khans, preserves for wild mechas and monasteries that are also singularities."
#BenjaminRosenbaum, author

#Neom by #LavieTidhar will bring me joy for sure. His episodic novel #CentralStation from 2016 would be part of my personal nomination for a #ScienceFiction canon.

https://tachyonpublications.com/product/neom/

"A deliciously inventive wild ride through a future Middle East full of unexpected wonders: dutiful jackals, traumatized robots, terrifying terrorartists, caravans of elephants and great slinkying robotic khans, preserves for wild mechas and monasteries that are also singularities."
#BenjaminRosenbaum, author

#Neom by #LavieTidhar will bring me joy for sure. His episodic novel #CentralStation from 2016 would be part of my personal nomination for a #ScienceFiction canon.

https://tachyonpublications.com/product/neom/

Dezeen : This week The Line architects explained the thinking behind the megacity https://www.dezeen.com/2023/07/22/the-line-documentary-this-week/ #ThisweekonDezeen #Architecture #TheLine #Neom #all

I reiterate, if you're a starchitect participating in #SaudiArabia #NEOM, you should be blacklisted.

The murder of Khashoggi should have demonstrated the level of brutality Saudi Arabia is willing and capable of pursuing.

Forcibly displacing people and sentencing some to death standing in the way of a $500B ecological disaster is evil.

Looking the other way is complicity in evil.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/saudi-arabia-neom-tribespeople-jailed-resisting-displacement

Dezeen : The Line architects explain Saudi mega city in Discovery Channel documentary https://www.dezeen.com/2023/07/18/the-line-architects-discovery-channel-documentary/ #ReinierdeGraaf #Architecture #SaudiArabia #PeterCook #ThomMayne #TheLine #News #Neom #all

Dezeen : The Line will "keep proving" critics wrong says Saudi crown prince https://www.dezeen.com/2023/07/18/saudi-crown-prince-the-line-neom-mohammed-bin-salman/ #Architecturevideos #Architecture #SaudiArabia #TheLine #News #Neom #all

Dezeen : Researchers propose Saudis turn The Line into The Circle to improve mobility https://www.dezeen.com/2023/06/27/the-line-circle-city-neom/ #Architecture #Skyscrapers #SaudiArabia #TheLine #News #Neom #all

@Npars01 @GreenFire @DrALJONES or general the money they throw around...

Like WTF IS THIS #NEOM SHIT?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyWaax07_ks

for real, #Neom is a shitshow!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyWaax07_ks

#Nyom >>> #NEOM!

Don't even bother to change my mind!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct9ZteUl0Qs