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jordan lenchitz

jordan lenchitz

jordan lenchitz

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Jordan is a PhD student in music theory and graduate teaching assistant at Florida State University. An avid walker for recreational as well as intellectual and spiritual purposes, his interests inside and outside academe include experimental musics and sounding arts, just intonation and extended just intonation, hegemony and counter-hegemony, and theoretical philosophy. His dissertation considers listeners’ experiences of a cappella vocal musics as sound using Sardinian cuncordu, Bulgarian women’s diaphony, and works by Toby Twining and Michael Harrison as case studies at the intersection of theoretical and ethnographic methods. Beyond walking and thinking, in his spare time Jordan enjoys creating experimental sound and video art, riding his external bicycle, and consuming and generating teloi.
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By de Certeau: In “Walking in the City”, de Certeau conceives pedestrianism as a practice that is performed in the public space, whose architecture and behavioural habits substantially determine the way we walk. For de Certeau, the spatial order “organises an ensemble of possibilities (e.g. by a place in which one can move) and interdictions (e.g. by a wall that prevents one from going further)” and the walker “actualises some of these possibilities” by performing within its rules and limitations. “In that way,” says de Certeau, “he makes them exist as well as emerge.” Thus, pedestrians, as they walk conforming to the possibilities that are brought about by the spatial order of the city, constantly repeat and re-produce that spatial order, in a way ensuring its continuity. But, a pedestrian could also invent other possibilities. According to de Certeau, “the crossing, drifting away, or improvisation of walking privilege, transform or abandon spatial elements.” Hence, the pedestrians could, to a certain extent, elude the discipline of the spatial order of the city. Instead of repeating and re-producing the possibilities that are allowed, they can deviate, digress, drift away, depart, contravene, disrupt, subvert, or resist them. These acts, as he calls them, are pedestrian acts.

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