Each city has a different affect
Layers of city are displaced – moved through the areas – each area has its own genre –
Simultaneous genres – where the sidewalk ends the genre ends – difficult to walk from one to another – the legal act of walking – divided city – penetration only possible with vehicle
Intimacy allows for dwelling, - phenomenology – does the city allow for intimacy because of the lack of dwelling?
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Could it be seen as diminutive to utilize collective and simple genres to categorize and classify elements or themes of life, which is usually deemed as complex? Is it that we find it complex as individuals but as a collective life is generic? We’re birthed, grow, reproduce, and die; in between we have a collection of experiences in an order that is somewhat common. To classify it in to broad, subversive genres is dualistic in action: collating and rejecting information, group and ungroup persons and the removal of individualism of persons while delving in to the minutiae of an individuals’ story.
To recollect the so-called ‘untold stories’ of the impermanent residents here, is a genre that has been explored by anthropologists, biasedly by the media, and favorably by the government; or the heavily curated and contrasting accounts of the socialites and ‘influencers’ of social media. These genres of narrative manipulate and play to the existing desires of mass consumers of media. Increasingly issues in and of physical space are highlighted in a virtual space via a network society, the sense of reality becoming divertissement, the tuning in to the genres of others lives to tune out our own.
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Heredity genres
Genres dictating how work is read
Expat – being ‘from here’ but not ‘of here’
Space in common – the male
Struggle in geography – disconnect
consumption of space per person
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Genre as superstructure over the city –
Being conscious that our position is never fixed and can change
Many different positions – partial posterity
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Performance of identity – genre of literature on identity politics becoming a genre
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Marxist theory of control through genre – is the 'city' constructed in a fashion to create control – provide choices and then struck within them – used a s control
Censorship a- bypassing –
Moving through space that isn’t designed to be moved through