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Book review: Geopoetics in Practice

Book review: Geopoetics in Practice book reviews 205 active, radical politics. It achieves this by reframing material and symbolic space and intervening in how we sense and make sense of the city. A fascinating stage in this argument comes through a theorisation of the skyline as a Leibnizian monad. Viewed as a monad, the skyline is a perspective in which the whole city is expressed. This is a radical perspectivism that brings forth the relationship to all other skylines that are possible in a particular city, so that ultimately ‘there is no distinction between the city and the skyline. The city is skylines. It is itself points of view’ (p. 36). This Baroque critique, using Benjamin and Deleuze to original and creative ends, produces critical folds and lines, affirming dynamic new possibilities. The book is punctuated with a series of marvellous architectural drawings which leap upon the reader from sideways and unsettle her conviction. Various images – ‘the skyline as a heap of ruins; the skyline as a permanent catastrophe; the skyline as a piling up of guilt and debt; the skyline as an ornament of the façade of hell’ (p. 197) – subvert the market-led aesthetics of urban develop- ment that dominate thinking http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Cultural Geographies SAGE

Book review: Geopoetics in Practice

Januchowski-Hartley, Stephanie R
Cultural Geographies , Volume 28 (1): 2 – Jan 1, 2021
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1474-4740
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10.1177/1474474020942793
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book reviews 205 active, radical politics. It achieves this by reframing material and symbolic space and intervening in how we sense and make sense of the city. A fascinating stage in this argument comes through a theorisation of the skyline as a Leibnizian monad. Viewed as a monad, the skyline is a perspective in which the whole city is expressed. This is a radical perspectivism that brings forth the relationship to all other skylines that are possible in a particular city, so that ultimately ‘there is no distinction between the city and the skyline. The city is skylines. It is itself points of view’ (p. 36). This Baroque critique, using Benjamin and Deleuze to original and creative ends, produces critical folds and lines, affirming dynamic new possibilities. The book is punctuated with a series of marvellous architectural drawings which leap upon the reader from sideways and unsettle her conviction. Various images – ‘the skyline as a heap of ruins; the skyline as a permanent catastrophe; the skyline as a piling up of guilt and debt; the skyline as an ornament of the façade of hell’ (p. 197) – subvert the market-led aesthetics of urban develop- ment that dominate thinking

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Published: Jan 1, 2021

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