Coming soon: Brushes with the Real
a series of essays and photographs from the hinterlands
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When the city skates back: skateboarders vs. hostile architecture
Visible and mobile, my body is a thing among things; it is one of them….
A typology of acts of urban resistance
Guy Debord and the Situationists would have no doubt disapproved of a typology of acts…
Psychogeography: towards a third-wave definition
Born out of the French Letterists’ countercultural spirit, and further developed as a discipline by…
Slow shutter street photography
Photos uncropped and unedited, shot on a Panasonic GX80, and on a Rollei 35T
The violence of the image: photography as a magical act
In his memoir Quand j’étais photographe (1900), the early French photographer Félix Nadar recounts a…
The meme and the spectacle
In his seminal 1967 work, The Society of the Spectacle, the French critical theorist Guy…