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Author Martin, Niall, author

Title Iain Sinclair : noise, neoliberalism and the matter of London / Niall Martin
Published London ; New York : Bloomsbury, 2015

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Description 1 online resource
Series Bloomsbury studies in the city
Bloomsbury studies in the city.
Contents Cover; Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction -- 'Doctored maps, speculative alignments': Iain Sinclair and the Matter of London; Noise and Iain Sinclair; The return of the unselected; Noise as parasite; Staging and the locative effect of noise; 1 Reforgotten Cities: Noise and the Politics of Method; Finding form; The locked shutter; Walking the city: Psychogeography as cut-up; The 'John Bull printing set' and small-press politics; Reforgetting: Forms of complicity; The walk as spatial collage; 2 Parasitic Poetics: Lud Heat and the noise of genre; Background noise: Lud Heat and its contexts
The 'charting instinct': Long poems, big cities'These facts fade. The big traffic slams by': Art in absolute and abstract space; '[I]n there for the duration': Poetry as workplace; 3 The Vessels of Wrath: Noise and Form in Downriver; The empty vessel; '[N]o female sound': Noise and narrativity in Downriver; The locked room; '[No] sides to take': The fiction of disorientation; Opposition in a world without sides; The 'vessels of wrath': Satire and cynicism; 4 Between Archive and Ash: Rodinsky's Room; The solemn mystery of the reappearing room; Noise as lieu de mémoire; Room as archive
Lichtenstein and noise as redemptionSinclair and the production of absence; Ghost storage; 5 Roadworks: Orbiting the Orison; The politics of bus stops; The road as parasite; An unpeopled country: Misrecognition and reforgetting on the Great North Road; Conclusion -- Ghost Milk: Calling Time on the Grand Project; Works Cited; Index
Summary For much of the 20th century the modernist city was articulated in terms of narratives of progress and development. Today the neoliberal city confronts us with all the cultural 'noise' of disorder and excess meaning. As this book demonstrates, for more than 40 years London-based writer, film-maker and 'psychogeographer' Iain Sinclair has proved to be one of the most incisive commentators on the contemporary city: tracing the emerging contours of a metropolis where the meeting of global and local is never without incident. Iain Sinclair: Noise, Neoliberalism and the Matter of London explores Si
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed July 27 2015)
Subject Sinclair, Iain, 1943- -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Sinclair, Iain, 1943- fast
Subject Neoliberalism.
Literary studies: from c 1900.
Literary theory.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Literature
Neoliberalism
SUBJECT London (England) -- In literature
Subject England -- London
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
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