The Uncanny Likeness of the Street

Karen Cross

The Uncanny Likeness of the Street

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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
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
Publisher	Amsterdam University Press

Keywords

Social Media
Memory
Community
Alternative Consumption

Access to Document

https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789462984356/visualizing-the-street

Karen Cross
- k.cross@roehampton.ac.uk
- Department of Media, Culture and Language - Senior Lecturer
- Research Group in Sex, Gender and Sexuality - Senior Lecturer
- Centre for Research in Film and Audiovisual Cultures
Person: Academic

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