A collection of writings about place space writing and art …
Happy birthday, Georges Perec! Here are some quotes from his writing:
“Space is a doubt…” “Why not set a higher value on dispersal?” “I write: I write… I write: ‘I write…’ I write that I write… Etc.” “To write: to try meticulously to retain something, to cause something to survive; […]
Georges Perec on Writing, Space, the Uninhabitable, and More. — BIG OTHER
In an endlessly fascinating essay – Non-places: an introduction to super modernity – Marc Augé contrasts anthropological place (any space bearing the inscriptions of the social bond or collective history, such as churches, market places and town halls) with non-places. Described as spaces of circulation, consumption and communication, they are the places we inhabit when […]
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via Happy Sleepwalk. — lemanshots – Fine Pictures and Digital Art
What can we know of the world? What quantity of space can our eyes hope to take in between our birth and our death? How many square centimeters of planet earth will the soles of our shoes have touched?
– Georges Perec in Species of Spaces and Other Pieces
The concept of absolute time was abolished after Einstein’s mind-bending realization that time is nothing more than an illusion. Past, present and future exist simultaneously. Our past is not gone and our future already exists. What’s time? Killing time?Wasting time? Once upon a time? The most common phrases of all the time but What is […]
We rarely see them. Or rather, we see but fail to acknowledge. They inhabit a shadowland of the banal, the unremarkable, the unnoticed. Concealed in their own mundanity, they gently erase themselves from view. Yet in Christopher Herwig’s remarkable Soviet Bus Stops, these drab artefacts of lane and street are re-invented, as Jonathan Meades observes […]
In airport, we looked at how Augé’s non-places are maybe not so ‘non’. They are places not merely of circulation, communication and consumption but creativity too. This suggests perhaps a further liminal characteristic of non-places – their identity is not merely singular but multiple; and these identities blur. It is a view proposed by Peter Merriman in […]
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Photography is a ship carrying light and space and heading toward the future. Read on Places Journal
“I don’t want to be famous. I like to be able to sit in a cafe and watch the world go by and observe people.” – Sophia Myles
via Front row seat to life on the street — Ordinary People Doing Ordinary Things
Naked Cities Journal 
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