I’ve just begun reading through The Dialectics of Seeing by Susan Buck-Morss, which is an in-depth examination of Benjamin’s The Arcade’s Project. I haven’t yet had time to read through each page
This particular post is about something being done in the United States though it ties in to my discussion of the flâneur in European urban spaces. I continuously mention the
Back in 2004 through 2007 I had lived in Prague (in the Czech Republic). I had fantasized about living in Europe for as long as I could remember – I
“This epochal coalescence has far-reaching consequences for the social relations o the built environment. In the first place, the market provision of ‘security’ generates its own paranoid demand. ‘Security’ becomes
The portraits I paint here attest that the flâneuse is not merely a male flâneur, but a figure to be reckoned with, and inspired by, all on her own. She voyages
How do the three authors for today (Castells, Kitchin, and McKim) envision the ways in which technology is changing the both urban space itself and the urban experience? What kinds
I didn’t choose this set of quotes to be posted together, intentionally. These initial three are simply among the first I came across in the dog-eared, pink highlighted pages of
If you’d never heard the word flâneur and looked it up using only a dictionary (or, as most of us do these days, Google), you would find definitions that include words
In addition to reading literary texts and scholarly conversations on the concept of the flâneur/se and urban spaces, I’ve been looking all over the internet to see what there is