text: [{"text_idx": "#000001", "text": "At any rate, all these features -- the strange new feeling of an absence of inside and outside, the bewilderment and loss of spatial orientation in Portman's hotels, the messiness of an environment in which things and people no longer find their \"place\" -- offer useful symptomatic approaches to the nature of postmodern hyperspace, without giving us any model or explanation of the thing itself."}]