The Uncanny Likeness of the Street

TY - CHAP

T1 - The Uncanny Likeness of the Street

AU - Cross, Karen

PY - 2018/12/4

Y1 - 2018/12/4

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

KW - Social Media

KW - Memory

KW - Community

KW - Alternative Consumption

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

M3 - Chapter

SN - 9789462984356

T3 - Cities and Cultures, edited by Christopher Linder

SP - 207

EP - 226

BT - Visualising the Street

A2 - Dibazar, Pedram

A2 - Naeff, Judith

PB - Amsterdam University Press

ER -