Author: Nikki
of bathrooms and “third spaces”
The other day, I was listening to the Slate Culture Gabfest: : The “Slimeball” Edition. (You can go to the Stitcher app, iTunes, or wherever you usually go to listen
women who walk
“Once I began to look for the Flâneuse, I spotted her everywhere. I caught her standing on street corners in New York and coming through doorways in Kyoto, sipping coffee at
City & the City / seeing and unseeing
The quote below is another taken from “A Tourist Guide to Besźel and Ul Qoma” (by Rob O’Connor, full text can be found here: http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/luminary/issue%207/Article%206.pdf.) Very quickly (so as not
place and space: knowledge
“I walk because it confers – or restores – a feeling of placeness. The geographer Yi-Fu Tuan says a space becomes a place when through movement we invest it with meaning,
the flâneur speaks / language
I was scrolling through Instagram the other day and found myself feeling a little irritated when I happened upon someone who was visiting Iceland – they had posted a video
the new flâneur
This quote from Awad Ibraham’s piece really struck me, as I’ve been questioning what does it mean to be a flâneur for someone who has been defined as a refugee,
identity / space: “eyes of power”
See also another post in which I reference this one and the work of Ibriham Awad. These piece caught my attention for obvious reasons and though Ibrahim is speaking specifically
The Desert / Slab City, Salvation Mountain, East Jesus: time and reverence
My family and I went to Palm Springs this past weekend and spent a significant amount of time driving around to different sites around the area. I had been wanting
“A Tourist Guide to Besźel and UI Qoma”
In my research and reading for this project, I came across an academic paper by one Rob O’Connor titled “A Tourist Guide to Besźel and UI Qoma: Unseeing, the Brutality
TRAVEL GYPSY MUSE (“all who wander are not lost”)
** I want to first start off by apologizing for using the word “gypsy” in the title of this post. It is extraordinarily offensive and problematic, which I’m going to