[-empyre-] Re: empyre Digest, Vol 38, Issue 13

[sdv at krokodile.co.uk]

Actually I've been waiting for someone to make a direct reference to 
both psychogeography and geophilosophy, the cities question made me 
think about the former for example Ackroyd's biography of London or 
Sinclair's Orbital for the former. Both of whom suggest that the city is 
alive and autonomous in ways that the singularities who exist in the 
cities are not. And for the latter Mark Bonta and John Protevi's  
'Deleuze and geophilosophy....' (Deleuzoguattrarian geophilosophy is one 
of those phrases that makes one wince)..

But this is so far outside my usual area of work that i'm probably just 
missing the references...

s
John Haber wrote:

> Am I crazy, or does the "autonomy" in "temporary autonomous zones" 
> when it describes something like the Gaza strip or anywhere with 
> people suffering displacement, violence, poverty, and lack of voice in 
> governance have to come with one heck of a lot of irony.
> There are limits to the concept of cities as uniquely constructed 
> entities that should be mentioned.  It comes a little too close for 
> comfort to the American myths that align oppositions of 
> nature/culture, freedom/civilization, east coast and wilderness, and 
> it also has a way of leaving out suburbs and highway culture, 
> themselves sustained in part by government funding and in part by just 
> those myths.  Returning to Smithson, one can see the earthworks, 
> again, not simply as seeking the sublime outside the city but as 
> dismantling the opposition.  I'd rather explore cities as both 
> specific and multiple cultural sites.
> John
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