[-empyre-] Territories of Neo London

[Marianna & Daniel O'Reilly]

Dear Dale and empyre subscribers, thanks for hosting us this week.

Location and experience form the fictional backbone of the psychogeographic
fantasies presented in Neo London, and the documentary format is used to
explore the language and tropes of mundane news and social commentary,
revealing a perverse excitement at the prospect of social collapse. The
documentation produced could thus be seen as a mapping of the grey areas
lurking at the cusp of experience, at the edge defining interior and
exterior worlds.

The explorations undertaken in the project, to my mind, entertain the
tropes of the flâneur and the environmental notations of Benjamin, whilst
drawing on the English tradition of satire to draw a surreal, comedic,
psychotic urbanism into throwaway experience, junk fiction. In this effort,
a poetry of space emerges, although one which may only be revealed through
exploration of the maps.

Daniel
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