On Beckton Alp: Iain Sinclair, garbage, and ‘obscenery’
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| Publication date | 2016 |
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| Book title | Global Garbage |
| Book subtitle | Urban imaginaries of waste, excess, and abandonment |
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| Series | Routledge Research in Sustainable Urbanism |
| Pages (from-to) | 207-220 |
| Publisher | London: Routledge |
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| 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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