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Ballard's dystopian novel about Maitland, an architect who gets stranded beneath a motorway intersection. A kind of modern Robinson Crusoe.
article from The Modernist on underpasses
forward from Stuart Whipps photo book 'why contribute to the spread of ugliness' - a really lovely, insightful and often funny study of place. O'Fynn's forward is an agreeable questioning of devotion to progress
a thoughtful collection of several artists writing about place
particularly enjoyed this one by Emily Speed
considering chronotopes - a point where space and time are seen as fused
'Of Walking on Ice' by Werner Herzog.
Herzog's journal, kept as he walked from Munich to Paris after hearing his friend and mentor was dying in Paris
using journey and place to discuss other things. Inescapable metaphors for duration, temporality, mortality, levels of association/disassociation with environments. Also bizarre, attentive studies of place and changes of place. A joy to read.
useful essays by David Foster Wallace.
I've nicked a lot from him, particularly his use of extensive, dense foot notes. Really admire his keen (almost uncanny) ability for observation through unsuspecting analogy and metaphor. I'd love my writing to read like his, but I'm not that good, and his writing already exists.
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