On Beckton Alp: Iain Sinclair, garbage, and ‘obscenery’

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Authors
Publication date 2016
Host editors
  • C. Lindner
  • M. Meissner
Book title Global Garbage
Book subtitle Urban imaginaries of waste, excess, and abandonment
ISBN
  • 9781138841390
  • 9781138546455
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9781315732251
Series Routledge Research in Sustainable Urbanism
Pages (from-to) 207-220
Publisher London: Routledge
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA)
Abstract Leaning on a creosoted railing London makes sense. There is a pattern, a working design. And there’s a word for it too: Obscenery. Blight. Stuttering movement. The distant river. The time membrane dissolves, in such a way that the viewer becomes the thing he is looking at.
Document type Chapter
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315732251
Published at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315732251/chapters/10.4324/9781315732251-22
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