I feel, almost physically, the current of time slowing down in the gravitational field of oblivion. It seems to me then as if all the moments of our life occupy the same space, as if future events already existed and were only waiting for us to find our way to them at last, just as […]
Middenstead — Liminal Narratives
Middenstead. The ‘place where a dunghill is formed’. This is the dust-heap, the rubbish pile, the flecked land of litter and waste. Here we find the discarded; the despoiled; the contaminated and the forgotten. These are spaces we shun or, more passively, we fail to see. They flicker at the margins of sight. For Shoard, […]
Macabre — Liminal Narratives
Ghost signs, as we have seen, haunt the margins of many zones. Here, fixed categories blur before our eyes. These faded imprints, inked or carved on shop face or wall, elide past, present, future, materiality, insubstantiality, presence and absence. To those that care to listen, they murmur of long-forgotten brands — cigarettes, flour, razors — […]
Airport — Liminal Narratives
In an endlessly fascinating essay – Non-places: an introduction to super modernity – Marc Augé contrasts anthropological place (any space bearing the inscriptions of the social bond or collective history, such as churches, market places and town halls) with non-places. Described as spaces of circulation, consumption and communication, they are the places we inhabit when […]
Happy Sleepwalk. — lemanshots – Fine Pictures and Digital Art
Designed and created by Josephine R. Unglaub.
via Happy Sleepwalk. — lemanshots – Fine Pictures and Digital Art
Georges Perec – On Knowing the World
What can we know of the world? What quantity of space can our eyes hope to take in between our birth and our death? How many square centimeters of planet earth will the soles of our shoes have touched?
– Georges Perec in Species of Spaces and Other Pieces
flâneur — Liminal Narratives
In airport, we looked at how Augé’s non-places are maybe not so ‘non’. They are places not merely of circulation, communication and consumption but creativity too. This suggests perhaps a further liminal characteristic of non-places – their identity is not merely singular but multiple; and these identities blur. It is a view proposed by Peter Merriman in […]
Admiralspalast – Art Nouveau / Jugendstil — See in Berlin
A presentation of Admiralspalast – a theathre built in eclectic Art Nouveau / Jugendstil style
via Admiralspalast – Art Nouveau / Jugendstil — See in Berlin
Converge. — lemanshots – Fine Pictures and Digital Art
Designed and created by Josephine R. Unglaub.
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