Between the Registers: The Allegory of Space in Walter Benjamin's <i>Arcades Project</i>

Sussman, Henry

doi:10.1215/01903659-30-1-169

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The Mobilized Gaze and The Ethnographic Flaneur1

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“…I shall purloin no valuables, appropriate no ingenious formulations. But the rags, the refuse—these I will inventory but allow, in the only way possible, to come into their own: by making use of them.” Like postmodern culture, the Arcades Project embraced the ambiguous “thrownness” and “unbounded” aspects of experience (Sussman 2003).…”

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The Postmodern Ethnographic Flaneur and the Study of Hyper-Mediated Everyday Life

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2012

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

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The saturation of mediated communication in contemporary cultural life demands that ethnographers develop alternative methods of social research. I argue that they should embrace the mobilized gaze of the flaneur to understand how postmodern, mediated experiences fit into everyday cultural practices. I also offer a number of recommendations that can guide ethnographers as they examine hyper-mediated cultural contexts. These recommendations include (1) embrace the emergent, fleeting moment; (2) think dialectically about culture; (3) represent the postmodern in “writing” culture; (4) conceptualize ethnography as partial, subjective, and self-reflexive; and (5) embrace the semiotic tradition. By adopting the methodological practices of flanerie, ethnographers can provide compelling and evocative analyses of postmodern culture that make sense of the complex cultural moment.

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Section: The Mobilized Gaze and The Ethnographic Flaneurmentioning

confidence: 99%