Off Limits: Elastic Border Regimes and the (Visual) Politics of Making Things Public

“The ordinary practitioners of the city live ‘down below,’ below the thresholds at which visibility begins. They walk –– an elementary form of this experience of the city; they are walkers, Wandersmänner, whose bodies follow the thicks and thins of an urban ‘text’ they write without being able to read it.”— Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life “It is, in fact, obvious that monuments inspire social prudence and often even real fear. The taking of the Bastille is symbolic of this st..