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Landscapes of visual repetition
The allure of seeing the world from above is so closely associated with the discipline of geography that some degree programs even suggest that students who “prefer the window seats on airplanes” might be potential future geographers. And while there are many reasons to be cautious about the totalizing perspective of the “God’s-eye view,” aerial images still nevertheless invite… Continue reading Landscapes of visual repetition →
You can only go to Auschwitz for the first time once
You can only go to Auschwitz for the first time once.When I walked from my hotel the first time I had no idea what was hiding from me in plain view in the landscape. I didn’t know anything. I didn’t know that my hotel, the Polin, carried the Yiddish name for Oswiecim. I didn’t know… Continue reading You can only go to Auschwitz for the first time once →
Alone at A*
I was always alone at A* but I wanted to be a tour guide, to gather others around me and walk with them and tell them stories, to show them the edges, the hinterland, the connective tissue, the limina, the penumbric spaces.I wasn’t interested in the flora, I passed over it without seeing, without noticing.… Continue reading Alone at A* →
Stones of Arran
Tim Robinson didn’t invent deep mapping but he refined it to the nth degree with The Stones of Arran. Here’s an interview with him. Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage, the first volume of Tim Robinson’s comprehensive account of Árainn, the largest of the Irish Aran Islands, was first published in 1985, followed in 1995 by Stones of Aran:… Continue reading Stones of Arran →
Fin de Copenhague
Fin de Copenhague (Goodbye to Copenhagen) will be familiar, at least by reputation, to scholars and admirers of the Situationists, and perhaps to aficionados of the artist’s book, though not many will have perused an original copy since only 200 were printed by Permild & Rosengreen in Copenhagen, and published by Jorn’s “Bauhaus Imaginiste” in May 1957.… Continue reading Fin de Copenhague →
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The Beach Beneath the Street
Over fifty years after the Situationist International appeared, its legacy continues to inspire activists, artists and theorists around the world. Such a legend has accrued to this movement that the story of the SI now demands to be told in a contemporary voice capable of putting it into the context of twenty-first-century struggles.
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