adapted by D. Weinstein from Kurt Wolff (Trans.) The Sociology of Georg Simmel. New
York: Free Press, 1950, pp.409-424
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The user of a city picks out certain fragments of a statement in order to actualize them in secret. Roland Barthes
Routine gleaning
Harvey Keitel in "Smoke"
Mobile Gleaning
The mobile phone is today omnipresent – as notebook, still camera, audio recorder, photo album, music storage device, texting interface, blog updater, miniaturized laptop, video camera. An urban commuter, equipped with such a powerful device for a range of documentation, is ready to gather, accumulate and immediately forward snapshots of daily experience. Such ”mobile gleaning” thus recontextualises fragments of experience within surroundings that we daily decode. How might we use this portable multi-function device as we interpret and interact with cities and their stories?
The flaneur (and friend)
RECOMMENDED READING & VIEWING
- Agnes Varda, "Les Glaneurs et la Glaneuse"
- Chris Marker, "Sans Soleil"
- Clemens von Wedemeyer, "Von Gegenüber (From the Opposite Side)"
- Edgar Allan Poe, "The Man of the Crowd"
- Florian Böhm, "Wait for Walk"
- Franz Kafka, "The Cares of a Family Man"
- Georg Simmel, "The Metropolis and Mental Life"
- Magnus Bärtås, "who is.."
- Matthew Buckingham, "A Man of the Crowd"
- Michel de Certeau, "The Practice of Everyday Life"
- Patrick Keiller, "London"
- Wayne Wang and Paul Auster, "Smoke"
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