Lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living

“The sibylline books of publicité”

“In general the close connection between advertising and the cosmic awaits analysis” wrote Benjamin (Arcades, 175). Indeed, and the connection would only become closer in the 50s; when, meanwhile, the phalanstery was finally conquered for the suburbs.A 1956 advert reads:

It’s wrong to wish on space hardware

 Is it? These Soviet space program matchboxes (linked to by owen) suggest not.