… since Neolithic times we have been marking down representations on cave walls, in the dirt, on parchment, trees, lunchplates, napkins, even on our own skin-all so we could remember where we have been, where we want to be going, where we should be going. There is a deep impulse ingrained in us to take these directions, coordinates, declarations out of … [Read more...] about Mapping the Real : Ethno-graphology and the ‘Other Scene’
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Our Kind of Town
Citizen Social Science, Participatory Mapping and the Struggle for a Just City This is the text of a public lecture I gave to the Institute for Social Research at Birkbeck in October 2014.Thanks very much for the many useful comments made in the discussion following the lecture, some of which have been taken on board in revising this text. I am especially … [Read more...] about Our Kind of Town
March Blog: Living with Painting
Living with painting The works which constitute the life and fame of artists decay one after the other by the ravages of time. Thus the artists themselves are unknown, as there was no one to write about them so that this source of knowledge was not granted to posterity Giorgio Vasari Writing is present in the margins, painting is spread over ‘vacant’space’ - … [Read more...] about March Blog: Living with Painting