Freewrite

What aspects of the city/urban environment does style wars map? What does graffiti make visible that a traditional map does not?

-layer of subway
-mobile canvas
-more than aesthetic
-law/city admin ... writer/artists
-tension youth
-express their feelings through art
-graffiti, break dancing, rap
-"all city"- names
-writing on the city- illicit -marginated groups/culture
-marking their territory

Key Concepts of Michel de Certeau (Walking in the City)

about: mapping the city through walking

-Optical Knowledge: Looking from the skyscraper of the World Trade Center "agitation is momentarily arrested" (157) : stopped before the eyes
-Voyeur: connected to the objects of seeing, see's the city from above then coming at it from experience or plan, not being a part of the experience down below "His elevation transfigures him into a voyeur. It puts him at a distance. It transforms the bewitching world by which one was 'possessed' into a text that likes before one's eyes. It allows one to read it to be a solar Eye, looking down like a god." (157). Viewpoint that no one has.
-Walker: "The ordinary practioners of the city live 'down below' below the thresholds at which visibility begins. They walk-an elementary form of this experience of the city; their are walkers, Wandersmanner, whose bodies follow the thicks and thins of an urban 'text' they write without being able to read it. These practioners make use of spaces that cannot be seen." (158). They're using space, inhabit space, making distinctions down below, knowledge they don't have to think about, experience through body and not through eyes, there's connection between wanderers and walkers, movement define city. "geometrical or geographical space" (158): planned and built part of the city, being watched every time or not being watched but feel disciplined, geometrical- planning according to geometry.
-migration: refers to mobility
-citizens to use the city productively, and not only passively
-Practices: "Beneath the discourses that ideologies the city, the ruses and combinations of powers that have no readable identity proliferate" ... "concept city is decaying" (160): everyday practices, not exceptional
-idol footsteps: not productive, not contributing to the cities system, walking that has no set roots
-maps are problematic but walking uses space to Certeau

Style (161)
Rhetorics of Walking (161)
Fiction of Knowledge (157)
Waste Products (159)
Optical Knowledge (158)
Legibility (161)
Spatialized (161)
Threshold (158)
Accepted Frame Work (163)
Imposed Order (163)
Agglomeration (158)
Voyeur (157)
Walker
Concept City
Urban Practices
Migrational, Metaphorical City (158)

Fun Home review in class
-fun home vs everyday: domestic space, urban space, our everyday psychology
-dominant point of reference to the understanding of the author: relationship with her father and the understanding of him
-Fun Home references: funeral home (ironic), own home- gothic revival, NYC, grandmother's place, thinking its like a circus

Topic Proposal

Cindy Lee

English 103

Professor Frey

12/5/11

Topic Proposal

Mon Dec 5:  Topic Proposal.

By no later than Mon in class, you should submit digital and hard copy of your topic proposal. Your topic proposal should include your proposed site, the critical question(s) that are guiding your project, the key concepts from Corner you will use, a tentative outline or abstract, and a bibliography.  Your proposal should answer the following questions:

·       What territory/text did you choose to map/analyze?

·       What specific aspects of the everyday do you intend to map & how?

·       What 4 or more concepts from your Corner will you use and how?

·       What critical questions will you attempt to answer in your project?

·       What interrelationships do you intend to chart and what will that look like? What format will your essay/map take?

·       What kind of research will you need to do develop your map further? Will you be looking for background info on your site? E.g. history, images, literature, films, etc.

1.)  My beginning quote: “For the landscape architect and urban planner, maps are sites for the imaging and projecting of alternative worlds. Thus maps are in-between the virtual and the real” (The Agency of Mapping pg. 225). Mapping behind the mind of a child who went through a though time.

2.)  Mapping an angel named Briana Keefe. –her life (her past), feeling (her going through cancer), action (the medical part) until the end of her life.

3.)  – the visual of mapping

- hidden forces of mapping (214)

- finding the map and connections to the map (225) map isn’t a map (225)

- gathering, working, reworking, ……….. of mapping (228)

4.)  Is this the map Briana Keefe went through in her short life?

5.)  I will map my time with her with the feelings she felt while we were together listening to her feelings.

6.)  My memory of her, my recordings of her, past pictures that I took and her parents took, informations from her parents, feelings that I never thought of but she did … etc.