Paris-Amsterdam Underground : Essays on Cultural Resistance, Subversion, and Diversion

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Paris-Amsterdam Underground Cities and CulturesCities and Cultures is an interdisciplinary humanities book series addressing the interrelations between contemporary cities and the cultures they produce. The series takes a special interest in the impact of globalization on urban space and cultural production, but remains concerned with all forms of cultural expression and transformation associated with contemporary cities. Edited by Christoph Lindner and Andrew Hussey amsterdam university pressThis book is published in print and online through the online OAPEN library (www.oapen.org) OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) is a collaborative initiative to develop and implement a sustainable Open Access publication model for academic books in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The OAPEN Library aims to improve the visibility and usability of high quality academic research by aggregating peer reviewed Open Access publications from across Europe.Cover illustration: Sarah Guilbaud Some rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, any part of this book may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise).Every effort has been made to obtain permission to use all copyrighted illustrations reproduced in this book. Nonetheless, whosoever believes to have rights to this material is advised to contact the publisher. 5 AcknowledgementsThis book -like its subject -is the product of a series of interactions and exchanges between Paris and Amsterdam involving a group of creative and critical thinkers whose work addresses (and is sometimes implicated in) countercultural movements, moments, scenes, and spaces in both cities. The project developed from a pair of linked conferences on the topic of the underground -one held in Amsterdam in 2010 and the other in Paris in 2011 -which involved a lot of geographic and intellectual shuttling between the two cities on the part of the speakers. The benefit, we believe, can be seen throughout this book in the often surprising, sometimes strange, but always productive interconnections between the various chapters. Our thanks, therefore, to the speakers and audiences at both conferences for their energetic contributions, as well as to our respective institutions, the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis and the University of London Institute in Paris, for providing financial support. For serious and substantial help in getting this book ready for publication, we are greatly indebted to Miriam Meissner at ASCA, whose editorial and research assistance tied many loose ends together. Most of all, we are grateful to the authors in this book for participating with such a collaborative spirit in the extended conversation involved in the project as a whole, from its guerrilla conference roots through to its final published form. Christoph Lindner and Andrew Hussey9 Foreword David PinderIn one of the many striking images in this boo...