In postmodern architecture physical materials cease circulating while traditional infrastructures persist

Evidence

This said, the circulation of fluids is unequal. Ventilation, cooling, electrical networks - the “traditional” fluids circulate there very well. Already the circulation of the human flux is less assured (the archaic solution of escalators in plastic sleeves, one ought to be aspirated, propelled, or something, but with a mobility that would be up to this baroque theatricality of fluids that is the source of the originality of the carcass). As for the material of the works, of objects, of books and the so-called polyvalent interior space, these no longer circulate at all. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 202

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the chapter’s broader gendering/analysis of Beaubourg as a ‘carcass’ and to Jameson’s account of postmodern space as depthless and fragmented. — connects to: Postmodernity abandons modern difference while retaining its technological infrastructure. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 832; Postmodern architecture deliberately packages an older structure inside a new, alien skin — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 286; The objects that nourished an artistic movement vanish when their production economy changes — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 209 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Postmodernity abandons modern difference while retaining its technological infrastructure. #expands (0.90) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 832
• Postmodern architecture deliberately packages an older structure inside a new, alien skin #exemplifies (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 286