Fictions of the City 2009
DOI: 10.1057/9780230244917_5
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“…In the final section, I return to The L-Shaped Room to consider the muted utopianism inherent in fictional portrayals of the lodging house. I conclude by arguing that the humble partition wall became The films and archival materials I want to consider in this paper represent an experience that defined modernity: the atomisation of space in housing and other social institutions, through rationalising or profit-driven processes of subdivision (Foucault 1991;Taunton 2009). The partition wall therefore becomes a token of the vast, elusive world of postwar lodging houses; a world that in its isolation and alienation of the lodger -and, I will argue, in its role as a harbinger of unforeseen forms of conviviality and community -goes to the heart of city life in the twentieth century.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the final section, I return to The L-Shaped Room to consider the muted utopianism inherent in fictional portrayals of the lodging house. I conclude by arguing that the humble partition wall became The films and archival materials I want to consider in this paper represent an experience that defined modernity: the atomisation of space in housing and other social institutions, through rationalising or profit-driven processes of subdivision (Foucault 1991;Taunton 2009). The partition wall therefore becomes a token of the vast, elusive world of postwar lodging houses; a world that in its isolation and alienation of the lodger -and, I will argue, in its role as a harbinger of unforeseen forms of conviviality and community -goes to the heart of city life in the twentieth century.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%