BEYOND THE FLÂNEUR AND THE PILGRIM : REFLECTIONS ON THE URBAN ART OF MEMORY
Sonesson, Göran LU
(2024)
In Lexia
2024(45-46).
p.315-331
- Abstract
Urbanity is primarily a term for experiencing the city, and urban experience is very much about memory. Since urban meaning, as perceptual meaning generally, is not predominantly made up of signs, other notions of meaning, such as extended cognition or exogram, introduced by cognitive science, affordance, as in Gibsonean psychology, and sedimentation, in the sense of Husserl, are tried out, and found to be somewhat overlapping, but also complementary. All three notions can be applied to the city as an assemblage of buildings, but they are also relevant to the city as a bundle of possible trajectories. Going beyond the flâneur and the pilgrim scenarios, which we have explored in earlier papers, we here turn to the cityscape scared by... (More)
Urbanity is primarily a term for experiencing the city, and urban experience is very much about memory. Since urban meaning, as perceptual meaning generally, is not predominantly made up of signs, other notions of meaning, such as extended cognition or exogram, introduced by cognitive science, affordance, as in Gibsonean psychology, and sedimentation, in the sense of Husserl, are tried out, and found to be somewhat overlapping, but also complementary. All three notions can be applied to the city as an assemblage of buildings, but they are also relevant to the city as a bundle of possible trajectories. Going beyond the flâneur and the pilgrim scenarios, which we have explored in earlier papers, we here turn to the cityscape scared by terrorist acts or outright war, considered as a particular kind of semiosis, as are the variegating attempts to patch up the remains of the cityscape.
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- Sonesson, Göran
LU
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- 2024
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- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- affordance, Exogram, memory, sedimentation, urban trajectories
- in
- Lexia
- volume
- 2024
- issue
- 45-46
- pages
- 17 pages
- publisher
- Universita di Torino
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- scopus:105001323269
- ISSN
- 1720-5298
- DOI
- 10.53136/979122180415716
- language
- English
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- yes
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