New Cities/New Soviets

October 17, 2003

Clues

"They write books with too many answers and no clues."
-Dennis Potter, The Singing Detective

I have been looking for clues that I feel better.

I was starting to feel depressed. I'm not exactly sure why I was feeling bad. There were a lot of reasons, really. I could trace them, but the real question was what to do to head them off, to cut them off at the pass.


I decided not to take the cart out as planned. I have been helping Molly clean up. We watched the Sox go down. I made us potato skins. Am I beginning to feel better?

murder mystery

There are many things to do, and the cart is just one of them.

The city is a question of space. What's happening?

I have been thinking about Hypercities. You may have noticed the tab up above. So far, there is not much more than that. The basic inspiration for the project was the thought that carried me to New York: every human activity leaves a mark in the space it traverses. Even walking down a street -- the passage leaves a trace. Add these traces together and you have the city. All these spaces, all these different uses, layered one on another. The Hypercities project is an attempt to map this ecology, this exponential city.

The current crop of major publications for New York -- The New Yorker, Time Out NY, New York, The Village Voice, Vice NY -- are a depressing waste of time. They participate in structuring the city, but never engage the structure of the city. They are devoid of resonance. They are full of answers, empty of clues.

Posted by Sam at October 17, 2003 05:18 AM

best post in long time
guts come thru
picture perfect

this you feel

is the after birth if success

the nausea of the after the after birth lick
its the after birth lick blues

the right turn now
as you've done
is a left turn
from your own cart to the future of urban man

watch pal
you'll get the cart mojo back quick

by the way take it from a soxhead of old
when and if the sox win they become just like
the anaheim angels
thank the gods
they for now have preserved the dignity of
disgrace

Posted by: meat me at October 17, 2003 10:08 AM

Sam,

You saying you wanted to map out the city based on people's experiences and interactions with it and through it reminds me of something.

Have you ever heard of the New York Psychogeography Association? Or of the idea of psychogeography that came from the Situationists?

Posted by: Eric Blair at October 17, 2003 03:27 PM

The photographs here are excellent. The city is on fire.

Posted by: Eric Blair at October 17, 2003 03:31 PM

looked at web links
what gives
wouldn't be somethings
fanzine selfpuff daddy
poetry sub zero
poli sci
proto goonary

a sour vintage
says a boomer

Posted by: meat me at October 18, 2003 08:04 PM

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