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Degraded Orbit

@degradedorbit.bsky.social

A site about abandoned places, unusual architecture, and underground culture. www.degradedorbit.com

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Degraded Orbit@degradedorbit.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"In the book’s active grouping of these seemingly disparate figures, they gain a new layer of depth and intent, becoming part of a greater project, however posthumously." A review of Antifascist Architecture from Park Books: degradedorbit.com/articles/ant...

ANTIFASCIST ARCHITECTURE - Degraded Orbit

Antifascist ArchitectureAndrew Santa Lucia & Daniel Jonas RocheIllustrated by Lane RickPark Books, Hardcover, 256 pages, CHF 39.00 In the opening sections of Antifascist Architecture, the authors exam...

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Degraded Orbit@degradedorbit.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Our latest piece on Moholy-Nagy’s “From Material to Architecture”, a book “marked by an expansive, utopian vision of the possibility of the individual mind when freed from the modern limitations of specialization”. www.degradedorbit.com/articles/fro...

BOOKS OF THE BAUHAUS: FROM MATERIAL TO ARCHITECTURE - Degraded Orbit

László Moholy-Nagy’s From Material to Architecture is the 14th book and final book in the Bauhausbücher series. Published in 1929, a year after his departure from the Bauhaus, it offers a comprehensiv...

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Degraded Orbit@degradedorbit.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Our latest piece on the Books of the Bauhaus covers Malevich’s “The Non-objective World”: "...Suprematism is a 'desert' in which objects shimmer into unreality, leaving only feelings and impressions..." www.degradedorbit.com/articles/boo...

BOOKS OF THE BAUHAUS: THE NON-OBJECTIVE WORLD - Degraded Orbit

Like Kandinsky before him, Kasimir Malevich arrived at the Bauhaus already wielding an impressive international reputation. His trip to Germany in the spring of 1927 saw him visit both Dessau and Berl...

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Degraded Orbit@degradedorbit.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The first in our series on the Bauhausbücher project covers Walter Gropius' "Modern Architecture": "...from the industrial monumentality of proto-modernist Peter Behrens to the lighter geometric forms of Mies van der Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright" www.degradedorbit.com/articles/boo...

BOOKS OF THE BAUHAUS: INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE - Degraded Orbit

International Architecture, the initial title in the Bauhausbücher series, serves as a manifesto of sorts for editor Walter Gropius. Its general subject asserts the primacy of architecture over the ot...

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John K. Peck@johnkpeck.bsky.social · last yr.

Novelettes are indeed apex vehicles of Weird. But what are they? - Novel: 40K+ words. - Novella: 20-40K words. - Novela: Spanish soap opera. - Novelette: Break 2-4 novels into a bowl; whisk vigorously. Heat with cheese, death, ham, sex, grief, or other themes; serve hot. - Short story: 1-10K words.

Tenebrous Press@tenebrouspress.bsky.social · last yr.

The novelette remains a storytelling vehicle seemingly tailor-made for Weird Horror. The SPLIT SCREAM series returns next month to take you on two terrifying journeys OFF THE MAP! New Weird Horror novelettes from @ideofmarch.bsky.social @johnkpeck.bsky.social & L. Mahler: store.tenebrouspress.com

Cover art of SPLIT SCREAM: OFF THE MAP by Evangeline Gallagher. Featuring two New Weird Horror novellas from Íde Hennessy and John K. Peck & L. Mahler. Two spot illustrations: a disembodied hand twined in twigs, and a stag's head rising from the waters, draped in moss and water plants. Text: WEIRD ONLY WORKS WHEN YOU WANDER FROM THE PATH. Volume Seven of the acclaimed series takes readers on a pair of nightmare excusrions to lonely locales. We're Sorry. And You're Welcome. Out March 2025