‘The Narcissism of Small Differences’: Plagiarism in South African Letters

Highman, Kate

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“…In recent years, this surface bias has been challenged by a wide array of scholarship ranging from ethnographic studies of how surfaces are imagined, produced, and lived (Coleman and Oakley-Brown, 2017; Anusas and Simonetti, 2020) to more general critiques of how ontologies of space as a flat, regular surface that affords mapping have been key to modern projects of territorial occupation and colonisation (Massey, 2005; Highman, 2017). In the fields of urban geography and anthropology, several scholars have in turn focused on the study of the ‘volumetric city’ (McNeill, 2020) by taking into account the vertical and voluminous extension of built space both upward and downward, highlighting the three-dimensional nature of modern territorial governance (Elden, 2013; Billé and Battaglia, 2020).…”

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Solidifying Grounds: The Intricate Art of Foundation Building

Meulemans

2021

Theory, Culture & Society

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Modern thinking about the ground tends to take it as a purely material base for the unfolding of history and ideas emerging on its surface. In this article, I question above-ground visions of city building by drawing on both the history of ground engineering and ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Paris with geotechnicians. I address the difficulties that theorists have faced over past centuries in modelling soils, and the contemporary practice of building piles underneath buildings to anchor them. From this unfolds an understanding of the ground as produced through an equilibrium between forces and materials in which buildings become participants, rather than a solid base upon which they stand. Looking at the activities of foundation builders, we find that the inertia of the urban soil no longer betokens an absence of activity or movement, but is rather a continuous achievement, a slow and dangerous process of balancing tensions.

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Solidifying Grounds: The Intricate Art of Foundation Building

Meulemans

2021

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‘The Narcissism of Small Differences’: Plagiarism in South African Letters

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Solidifying Grounds: The Intricate Art of Foundation Building

Solidifying Grounds: The Intricate Art of Foundation Building

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