Taking us into what for Mark Augé is the ultimate nonplace an airport waiting lounge Stacy Hardy and Jaco Bouwer provide still more proof of supermodernitys failure to do away with organic social life Granted the space we enter with them is not one of healthy connections between human beings encountering each other in a functional polis Clearly theirs is a world of radical disconnects At the same time however it is a world in which people invent highly idiosyncratic lives for themselves if there is one thing missing here it is precisely uniformity and in which imaginaries go haywire Indubitably the HardyBouwer airport lounge is a dystopian space and this space it seems fair to say functions as a synecdoche for a larger social condition But dystopia here stands in radical opposition to uniformity and it is determined to break the mold of late capitalist habitus Dominique Malaquais SPARCK