- Author
- Year
- 2016
- host editors
-
C. Lindner
M. Meissner - Title
- On Beckton Alp: Iain Sinclair, garbage, and ‘obscenery’
- Book title
- Global Garbage
- Book subtitle
- Urban imaginaries of waste, excess, and abandonment
- Pages (from-to)
- 207-220
- Publisher
- London: Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781138841390
9781138546455 - ISBN (electronic)
- 9781315732251
- Series
- Routledge Research in Sustainable Urbanism
- Document type
- Chapter
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities (FGw)
- Institute
- 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.
- URL
- go to publisher's site
- Link
- Final publisher version
- Language
- English
- Persistent Identifier
- https://hdl.handle.net/11245/1.485394
- Downloads
-
On_Beckton_Alp_Iain_Sinclair_garbage_and(Final published version)
- Supplementary materials
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