MAPPING

A collection of systems, structures and schemes that can be used as a rudimentary basis to begin to explore links between literary and visual pursuits and the schemata that are latent in our personal geographies, the cosmos and all else inbetween. A basis to begin a consideration of how creative production seeks to grasp what it means to be in the world.

The phalanstery is a city composed of arcades. In this ville en Jassages, the engineer’s construction takes on a phantasmagorical character. The “city of arcades” is a dream that will charm the fancy of Parisians well into the second half of the century. As late as 1869, Fourier’s “street-galleries” provide the blueprint for Moilin’s Paris en l’an 2000. Here the city assumes a structure that makes it- with its shops and apartments-the ideal backdrop for the flaneur.

—Walter Benjamin, from Exposé of 1939 (via d2viaa2)

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