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Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed DOI: 10.1080/14649365.2014.908235 BibTeX citation key: Dittmer2014a Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details |
Categories: General Keywords: "Building Stories", Architecture, City, Geography, Memoria, Ware. Chris Creators: Dittmer Publisher: Routledge (London) Collection: Social & Cultural Geography |
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This article takes up the recent interest in assemblage theory in urban geography and considers the potential for art to contribute to our narrations of urban assemblages. In particular, it uses Chris Ware’s recent magnum opus, Building Stories, as not only an account of the urban as an assemblage, but to indicate more broadly the way in which comics might be used to narrate urban assemblages in ways that highlight their multiplicity and plurivocality. The article draws out three themes in its analysis of Building Stories: more-than-human subjects, the various temporalities of the city, and the way memory and narrative are emergent from urban assemblages.
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