Visible and mobile, my body is a thing among things; it is one of them. It is caught in the fabric of the world, and its cohesion is that of a thing. But because it sees and moves itself, it holds things in a circle around itself – Maurice Merleau-Ponty, L’Œil et l’Esprit Space is […]
When the city skates back: skateboarders vs. hostile architecture Read More »
Guy Debord and the Situationists would have no doubt disapproved of a typology of acts of urban resistance, or at least viewed it with suspicion. Not merely because of their distrust of analytical academic discourse, but because they saw classification itself as an act of neutralisation. To render resistance legible is already to risk domesticating
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Born out of the French Letterists’ countercultural spirit, and further developed as a discipline by their better-known Situationist successors, psychogeography originally set out to interrogate -and ultimately disrupt- the impact of designed environments on human emotions. Through playful movement across the city and its suburban landscapes, it aimed to counter the increasing commodification of everyday
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