#The Body and the City in Western Civilization. Richard Sennett Humanity

[russellmoreton]

Palimpsest (Waverley Project) by Russell Moreton Via Flickr: russellmoreton.blogspot.com/ Collage with photographic drawings,materials and notes. Flesh and Stone, The Body and the City in Western Civilization. Richard Sennett Humanity, An Emotional History. Stuart Walton Being Me, What it means to be Human. Pete Moore Architecture and Allegory, Peter Greenaway. Bridget Elliott and Anthony Purdy

[grayravenartjournal]

Nov 02 23. Tutorial 2, year 3 semester 1. Taken directly from journal.

Macro/mirco, scaling bodies. Not another character but making something strange in of itself

'I am my body unwillingly'

Decartes ideas of dualism, the body and the mind as separate things.

I am my body, I am seen in society according to my body. I am my mind, my mind pilots my body, dysphoria means that often I am painfully aware of the physicallity of my body. I have to change my body so that it matches my brain, making them more separate from eachother, bringing them together.

Richard senate, how the city is read and made through the physical body and social body. Rome and Paris[enlightenment]

Disorder, personal identity and city life.

https://thesleepofrigour.wordpress.com/2014/06/26/richard-sennett-the-public-realm-borders-and-boundaries/

Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City In Western Civilization

https://librarysearch.northumbria.ac.uk/primo-explore/search?query=any,contains,Richard%20Sennett%20Flesh%20and%20Stone:%20The%20Body%20and%20the%20City%20In%20Western%20Civilization&tab=default_tab&search_scope=default_scope&sortby=date&vid=northumbria&facet=frbrgroupid,include,2699023211&offset=0

Your panning in and out, moving micro and macro from the body and politics

- Similar methods to second year with the clown, photocopying, enlarging, painting from the enlargement and then scanning that in

Are there ways to make more immediate work?

Post human, replicated, authentic self [sketchbook work]

Figures with additional arms/breasts/body parts look like ancient fertility statues

- Could this be added to your ideas of a beastiary? Could you design an alter/pantheon type of set up for submission

- Might be the progression from work titles last year, 'god is a man like me'

[justoucheddowninlondontown-blog]

Week 7 || Mrs. Dalloway || Context and Text

During our discussion section, our TA asked if we would like a practice assignment to allow us to dabble in relating the text to location and identifying the significance of these associations. I have decided to include mine here because I am rather proud of the work that I presented. Above is an image of busy, modern day Regent’s Park. While this is very clearly a different scene than the one Peter Walsh would have been familiar with, I feel that it does a good job of representing the chaos that the passage we read captured. This assignment has sparked my curiosity and following this post I will expand upon my research of Regent’s Park, but without further ado here is my in class paragraph relating location and text:

       Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway follows the internal thoughts and external experiences of Clarissa Dalloway as she wanders through her native London. During the journey of her day Mrs. Dalloway runs into a variety of people, the commonality of each of her interactions is that they are enhanced by the surrounding world. Regent’s Park and Street happen to be a focal point for many of the characters in the novel, the energy of the area is evident in the experiences that the characters have in this place. An article published by the Times in 192 titled “Improvements to the Park” offers that Regent’s Park “[has] been greatly growing in popularity” thus proving that the park was a crowded social center (The Times). Peter Walsh, a close companion of Clarissa wanders through London as well, he notes, “Like the pulse of a perfect heart, life struck straight through the streets” (Woolf 54).  The popularity described in “Improvements to the Park” confirms the livelihood that Peter experiences in the park, the excitement and the currents of both people and traffic become apparent. Regent’s Park is not only a place to pass time, but a place to recharge and capture the dynamism of a bustling city. Perhaps the life found in and around Regent’s Park can be attributed to the humans that inhabit this area. Peter again reflects, “As a child he had walked in Regent’s Park…women live much more in the past then we do, he thought. They attach themselves to places…” (Woof 55). In remembering his childhood upon his return to Regent’s Park, Peter notices that a large part of his identity can be found in places, this place to be specific. The bustle of Regent’s park might not be conducive to group meetings, but better suited for the thoughtful individual as an article titled “Flesh and Stones: The Body and City in Western Civilization” by Richard Sennett suggests: The pressure of linear pedestrian movement on Regent Street made, and still makes, it difficult for a stationary crowd to form, to listen to a speech, for instance. Instead, both street and park privileged the individual moving body”(Sennett). As Peter wanders through the park, the movement of his surroundings inspire him to reflect upon his past, his singular state allows him to be isolated in a crowd. He is alone with his thoughts, but not alone in the world. The interactions of Mrs. Dalloway’s characters in Regent’s Park are confirmed by historical analysis. The inspiration, solace and memory that are found in the place prove that Regent’s Park is alive not only with the characters, but inside of them as well. --CC

[russellmoreton]

Palimpsest (Waverley Project) by Russell Moreton Via Flickr: russellmoreton.blogspot.com/ Collage with photographic drawings,materials and notes. Flesh and Stone, The Body and the City in Western Civilization. Richard Sennett Humanity, An Emotional History. Stuart Walton Being Me, What it means to be Human. Pete Moore Architecture and Allegory, Peter Greenaway. Bridget Elliott and Anthony Purdy