The Aesthetic of the In-Between

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There is a specific kind of unease you feel standing alone in a nearly empty American shopping mall at 8 PM on a Tuesday. This article explores why certain everyday places in the US feel so strange and dreamlike — and what that feeling actually says about the way we live.