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Author Archive
the sky and the tunnel scheme # 1
Posted: March 13, 2012 by casualagent in The Political, The TunnelChina Mieville on Apocalyptic London_ on the banlieuefication of London, canary wharf and new glass mastodonts, olympic site, islamophobia and ghosts.
Posted: March 10, 2012 by casualagent in Counter-Mapping, The Political, The Tunnel, UncategorizedTags: cheap housing is pushed out of sight of the boulevards, faster and faster. The banlieuefication of London is under way., In Paris, incomes jostling together across the city. Now the poor are to be pushed centrifugally, London has always been far more of a medley, tense suburbs. With its history of public housing, the impoverished, to the banlieues, underserved
….In Paris, cheap housing is pushed out of sight of the boulevards, to the banlieues, the impoverished, underserved, tense suburbs. With its history of public housing, London has always been far more of a medley, incomes jostling together across the city. Now the poor are to be pushed centrifugally, faster and faster. The banlieuefication of [...]
Anna Minton’s book “Ground Control” ….. the regeneration of Docklands
Posted: March 5, 2012 by casualagent in UncategorizedTags: tunnel
The story starts in London’s Docklands. The transformation, in the 1980s and 90s, of shabby old wharfs into snazzy new marinas became a policy template for “urban regeneration” around the country. But as a model it was badly flawed. For a start, it did not regenerate anything, in the sense that nothing old was revived [...]
The Dockers, Canary Wharf Casino, Animal Spirits and the Tunnel
Posted: February 21, 2012 by casualagent in Counter-Mapping, The Political, The Tunnel, UncategorizedIsle of Dog – Canary Wharf is a place where the new form of labor becomes dramatically evident – the workers have indeed left the factory, or in this case – the docks, and the managerial and office class of the cognitariat has literally taken their place. This process is made visible in the centrifugal social/class [...]
David Harvey on Photography and Spirit
Posted: December 7, 2011 by casualagent in The Tunnel, UncategorizedTags: David Harvey, Photography, Spirit
“The democratization of photography, like that of the Bible during the Protestant Reformation,” he explains, “implied a loss of an authoritative interpretation and manipulation by an elite.” Without the mediating role of art and the institutions that governed its aesthetic claims, or religion and the institutions that governed its spiritual claims, spirit photography came to [...]
Jacques Derrida introduced the term in 1993 in ‘Spectres of Marx’. According to him the present does not exist ‘on its own’ but that it necessarily contains in it the remainers ( using ‘remainder as a reference ot Mc Carthy’s book) of the pastand simultaniosly glances of the future. His essay was written after 1989 [...]
Support Structures – on understanding ‘support’ as a critical cathegory
Posted: December 7, 2011 by casualagent in The TunnelTags: support structures
I believe that in our understanding of the issues surrounding the tunnel we could, as E.Weizman proposed while discussing his understanding of the term (proposed by Celine Condorelli) think of the notion of ‘support’ as itself a critical cathegory. Here i paraphrase in points Eyal from that discussion. As I mentioned today it seems to [...]
Greenwich Observatory – Joseph Conrad: The Secret Agent, Tom McCarthy and Rod Dickinson
Posted: December 7, 2011 by casualagent in UncategorizedIn Joseph Conrad’s ‘Secret Agent’ Mr Verloc, the secret agent is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory things go disastrously wrong, and what appears to be “a simple tale” proves to involve politicians, policemen, foreign diplomats and London’s fashionable society in the darkest and most surprising interrelations. Tom McCarthy [...]
River Thames vs. River Congo ?
Posted: December 7, 2011 by casualagent in The Tunnel, UncategorizedTags: joseph conrad, River Congo, River Thames, the image of the river
Heart of Darkness projects the image of Africa as “the other world,” the antithesis of Europe and therefore of civilization, a place where man’s vaunted intelligence and refinement are finally mocked by triumphant beastiality. The book opens on the River Thames, tranquil, resting, peacefully “at the decline of day after ages of good service done [...]
Joseph Conrad: Heart Of Darkness
Posted: December 7, 2011 by casualagent in Counter-Mapping, The TunnelTags: colonialism, greenwich, heart of darkness, joseph conrad, river themes, the tunnel
The beginning of Conrad’s novel, as Louise reminded us today, is set on the river Themes..i think this is the second fantastic starting point to start thinking in relation to the tunnel project. However, I would not like to praise Conrad for his anticolonialism a priori, and would propose as one of the reading groups [...]
