The Backrooms

If you don't mind: In case my final exam on philosophy would be open; I'd chose Liminality as the topic and copy your text XD.

A joke of course, but it's so well presented, it truly is worth an exam paper.

This essay calls back, in my opinion, to what Marc Augé, a French anthropologist, had to say about "Non-Places" and supermodernity. The horrific nature of the Backrooms has to do with its ambiguities, its lack of defined purpose, and the sudden isolation in simili-spaces (most "Levels" are callbacks to actual physical spaces we encounter in our dear world) where we are supposed to literally melt into the crowd. These worlds are not defined for life, they do not welcome you, you should only be here in passing, and yet you are stuck.