The dust-jackets of Iain Sinclair’s books are laden with endorsements describing him as the preeminent metropolitan writer of London. Yet those same texts often re-inscribe specifically local and regional practices. A walk around the perimeter of the borough of Hackney, for example, is described, in terms invoking ancient parochial rituals, as “beating the bounds.” This article, focusing on one of London’s most prominent literary spokesmen as a regional or local writer, challenges the conventional binary relationship between metropolis and region. Sinclair’s work does not function under the aegis of this model but overlays competing mappings of the same space on top of one another. Drawing on the idea that London is only knowable as a serie...
London has been peopled as much in the mind as in its streets. No city has been written about more. ...
This study explores different visions of contemporary London using the tools of cultural and literar...
London exerts attraction and repulsion upon travellers, writers and artists alike.Its past is oversh...
For Iain Sinclair, London is a life project. It tends to take the same ideal shape of the city he tr...
For much of the 20th century the modernist city was articulated in terms of narratives of progress a...
This article explores the possibilities of contemporary London writing to challenge established spat...
In *World City*, Doreen Massey traces how two strong narratives about London have dominated politica...
Taking shape like the spectral imprint of a developing photographic image, an apparition emerges fro...
The essay is an investigation of Iain Sinclair's London Orbital in relation to the issues of shamani...
London Orbital was born as the shared project of an eclectic writer – Iain Sinclair – and an equally...
This article considers the theme of memory in (post-)Thatcherite London through the analysis of Moor...
This essays looks at Sorry Meniscus Excursions to the Millennium Dome (Profile Books, 1999), by I Si...
This consideration of Iain Sinclair’s work begins at the summit of Beckton Alp, a pile of waste in L...
Iain Sinclair’s London is a labyrinthine city split by multiple forces deliriously replicated in the...
This essays looks at Sorry Meniscus Excursions to the Millennium Dome (Profile Books, 1999), by I Si...
London has been peopled as much in the mind as in its streets. No city has been written about more. ...
This study explores different visions of contemporary London using the tools of cultural and literar...
London exerts attraction and repulsion upon travellers, writers and artists alike.Its past is oversh...
For Iain Sinclair, London is a life project. It tends to take the same ideal shape of the city he tr...
For much of the 20th century the modernist city was articulated in terms of narratives of progress a...
This article explores the possibilities of contemporary London writing to challenge established spat...
In *World City*, Doreen Massey traces how two strong narratives about London have dominated politica...
Taking shape like the spectral imprint of a developing photographic image, an apparition emerges fro...
The essay is an investigation of Iain Sinclair's London Orbital in relation to the issues of shamani...
London Orbital was born as the shared project of an eclectic writer – Iain Sinclair – and an equally...
This article considers the theme of memory in (post-)Thatcherite London through the analysis of Moor...
This essays looks at Sorry Meniscus Excursions to the Millennium Dome (Profile Books, 1999), by I Si...
This consideration of Iain Sinclair’s work begins at the summit of Beckton Alp, a pile of waste in L...
Iain Sinclair’s London is a labyrinthine city split by multiple forces deliriously replicated in the...
This essays looks at Sorry Meniscus Excursions to the Millennium Dome (Profile Books, 1999), by I Si...
London has been peopled as much in the mind as in its streets. No city has been written about more. ...
This study explores different visions of contemporary London using the tools of cultural and literar...
London exerts attraction and repulsion upon travellers, writers and artists alike.Its past is oversh...