Samuel Bamford, a local radical who led the Middleton contingent to the assembly, wrote that "It was deemed expedient that this meeting should be as morally effective as possible, and, that it should exhibit a spectacle such as had never before been witnessed in England".
In terms of essayistic inspiration, however, Miéville owes a greater debt to a different sort of visual spectacle, an exhibit that opened last fall at the Tate Modern and closed in January, "John Martin: Apocalypse".
They're public celebrations of science and technology that usually span anywhere from several days to several weeks, and generally involve many differ hands-on interactive events including exhibits and demonstrations, spectacles, contests, lectures, workshops, and science-related stage performances by musicians, magicians, artists, comedians and actors.
Along with the on-the-water spectacle, a shoreside exhibit will illustrate the firm's story through pictures, half models and tank-test models.
He is part of an economy of spectacle – an exotic exhibit – but he is also assigned a role in a broader narrative about white racial degeneration, in which his effeminacy is read as a worrying symptom.
During the 2 year period, the spectacle control group exhibited more change in axial length than did the ortho-k group during both the first year (0.39 ± 0.21 mm vs 0.16 ± 0.17 mm,; 59% slower in the ortho-k group) and the second year (0.31 ± 0.24 mm vs 0.18 ± 0.15 mm,; 42% slower in the ortho-k group).
"The field of Battle exhibits this morning a most shocking spectacle too dreadful to describe … Those officers who were in the Peninsula describe the battles there as mere combats in comparison with that of yesterday".
George Jean Nathan, for one, would make an arresting exhibit, laid out in Berlin; such a spectacle, reflecting Stork Club elegance at its most appealing, might lay the spectre of Communism for years.
The highway future was sold in spectacles like Norman Bel Geddes's Futurama exhibit at the 1939 World's Fair, the smoke-and-mirrors nature of which was suggested by another Bel Geddes exhibit, a bit of reflective wizardry in which "a single dancing girl appears to be a whole chorus of World's Fairettes".
On the GoFundMe page, he describes the possible spectacle as a "living, breathing, art exhibit," and explains that he'd purchase the necessary horses from a ranch "about 200 miles" from the Black Rock Desert.
