Abstract
This chapter provides a way of beginning to understand social activist interventions relating to the contemporary urban high street, and the role of social media within this. Using Freud’s notion of the ‘uncanny’, the chapter focuses particularly upon the contemporary remediation of the past within both the material practices and photographic visualisations relating to the construction of an ‘alternative’ market space. The study focuses especially upon the practices of a volunteer-led project in South East London, in the UK, and, in relation to this, reveals the socially distancing and estranging process of remediation involved in visioning community today.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Visualising the Street |
Subtitle of host publication | New Practices of Documenting, Navigating and Imagining the City |
Editors | Pedram Dibazar, Judith Naeff |
Publisher | Amsterdam University Press |
Pages | 207-226 |
ISBN (Print) | 9789462984356 |
Publication status | Published - 4 Dec 2018 |
Publication series
Name | Cities and Cultures, edited by Christopher Linder |
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Publisher | Amsterdam University Press |
Keywords
- Social Media
- Memory
- Community
- Alternative Consumption
Profiles
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Karen Cross
- School of Arts - Honorary Research Fellow
- Centre for Research in Arts and Creative Exchange
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