Towards the great transformation: (3) research, Marx's 'Old Mole', and 'Robinson'/Keiller's journey

City

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 610-620

  Catterall, Bob ^a  

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Author keywords

'Old Mole'; Enclosures; Keiller Robinson; Landscape; Marx; Materialism; Owen Hatherley; Research; Rural; Shakespeare; Urban and socio spatial studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866850238     PISSN: 13604813     EISSN: 14703629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.726798     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Hardt and Negri, 'Marx's Mole is Dead!' www.eurozine.com/articles/2002-02-13-hardtnegri-en.html (accessed 8/8/12)
2. 'Towards the great transformation: (1)Beyond 'the urban revolution' in City, 16.1-2, pp253-263. Of the five sections (plus an introduction and conclusion), two presented vignettes of contemporary situations (the first consisting of suicidal protests, one of them akin to war, and the second of the intensified marginality of a street trader), another two presented an introduction to Robinson in Ruins linked to recent discussions of materialisms, and the final one introduced the notions of debt and festivity as discussed by David Graeber in the context of five thousand years of history;
3. See also Tate Online Research Papers Issue 17 by Susan Daniels, Patrick Keiller, Doreen Massey, Patrick Wright, 'To dispel a Great Malady: Robinson in Ruins, the Future of Landscape and the Moving Image', www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers/dispel-great-maladyrobinson-ruins-future-landsc. (accessed 27/08/12)
4. 16.1-2, pp257-8.
5. 16.4,p493
6. Introductory captions to the film 7 As identified by Neil Brenner in his 'What is critical urban theory?'. City, 13.2-3, pp 198-207.
7. Both of the papers are in City 15.6
8. Wachsmuth, Madden and Brenner, 'Between Abstraction and Complexity: Meta-theoretical observations on the Assemblage Debate', pp740-750
9. McFarlane, 'Encountering, Describing and Transforming: Concluding reflections on the Assemblage Debate and Urban Criticality', pp731-9
10. Editorial pp613-7.
11. Email from Keiller!3 August,2012
12. I rely particularly here, and in a subsequent episode, on Jerrold Seigel's sophisticated account in his Marx's Fate: The Shape of a Life, Princeton University Press 1978 and, with a new preface, Pennsylvania UP 1993.
13. Verso 2011(previously OUP 1976)
14. R.A. Foakes in his edition (originally 1984) A Midsummer Night's Dream updated edition Cambridge UP, 2003, p 47.
15. They are brought together particularly effectively in Andy Merrifield's Magical Marxism, London: Pluto Press 2011.
16. The book is discussed in my 'Is it all coming together? Thoughts on urban studies and the present crisis: (24) Whose space is this time? Insurrection, politics - and magic?' in 15.5,pp 605-612.
17. As stated in the Press information (26 March, 2012), under List of Works and Wall Texts
18. An eighth, not listed as such, a narrative of the financial crisis, will be taken up in the next episode in this series.
19. Guardian, 30March, 2012. Following the heading, a one sentence introduction runs: 'Patrick Keiller is our most original geographical and political thinker, as his Tate Britain exhibition confirms.
20. See, for this section of Berger's presentation, BBC iPlayer - Ways of Seeing: Episode 3: Mr and Mrs Andrews (www.bbc.co.umailk/.../Ways_of_Seeing_Episode_3_Mr_and_Mrs_Andr)
21. Translation of Daniel Bensai{dotless}̈d's introduction to his book: Résistances. Essai de taupologie générale, Fayard, Paris 2001. Featured as: 'The persistence of revolution: The Mole and the locomotive' at www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?page=print_article&id_article=117 (accessed 8/8/12) Cache
22. It also extends other significant traditions. Hatherley, as noted in the editorial to this issue, refers specifically to Walter Benjamin and to the work of the documentary film maker, writer and poet Humphrey Jennings. It should be added that Jennings' book Pandemonium was a principal influence on the Olympic opening event. See the account by Frank Cottrell Boyce, the event's writer, 'The night we saw our mad, fantastical dreams come true' www.guardian.co.uk, Sunday 29' July 2012.
23. See also, for some sense of the London Olympics' positive potential legacy, Boyce's 'The dangerous conversation - an Olympic-inspired vision' ('After writing the London 2012 Olympic opening ceremony, I was inspired to create this political invitation to change.') The piece is at www.observer.co.uk/commentisfree
24. Whether this political invitation, a symbolic counter blow to the neoliberal counterrevolution, can last and be implemented is a matter of socioeconomic trends, a sustaining vision, and a matching praxis.
25. Keiller' s animated research inspires such analysis, generosity of vision, and action.