To Peripheral Plaza

By: Johny Pitts

A new book on Kraftwerk's 'Future Music from Germany' and a Caribbean tribute both reckon with the echoes of an imagined utopia in a bleak present.

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In the late 1980s, the children’s TV series C.O.P.S. depicted an elite police squadron, ‘fighting crime in a future time’. That future, the year 2020, was one in which tall mirrored buildings are interconnected by space-age highways and populated by laser-toting enforcers, who we’re encouraged to think of as the good guys. In the first […]

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In the late 1980s, the children’s TV series C.O.P.S. depicted an elite police squadron, ‘fighting crime in a future time’. That future, the year 2020, was one in which tall mirrored buildings are interconnected by space-age highways and populated by laser-toting enforcers, who we’re encouraged to think of as the good guys. In the first […]

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In the late 1980s, the children’s TV series C.O.P.S. depicted an elite police squadron, ‘fighting crime in a future time’. That future, the year 2020, was one in which tall mirrored buildings are interconnected by space-age highways and populated by laser-toting enforcers, who we’re encouraged to think of as the good guys. In the first […]

In the late 1980s, the children’s TV series C.O.P.S. depicted an elite police squadron, ‘fighting crime in a future time’. That future, the year 2020, was one in which tall mirrored buildings are interconnected by space-age highways and populated by laser-toting enforcers, who we’re encouraged to think of as the good guys. In the first […]

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