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
“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
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
“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,
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
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,
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
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
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
** 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