ABSTRACT
The search is now on for places of excitement and ‘calculating hedonism’, somewhere where a ‘controlled suspension of constraints’ or ‘controlled sense of decontrol’ can be purchased, experienced and played with. What, then, might these new spaces of consumption and pleasure look like? These thoughts should not be read as a full-blown attempt at ‘futurology’; rather, following the technique used by HG Wells, it is more an exercise in ‘expanding the present’.
