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Drawing as an ethico-political practice

Gassner, Günter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5891-6228 2021. Drawing as an ethico-political practice. Geohumanities 7 (2) , pp. 441-454. 10.1080/2373566X.2021.1903814

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Abstract

This essay explores drawing as an ethico-political practice. Taking London as an example, I speculate about a critical and creative, radical and imaginative engagement with speculative urbanization processes at a time when the extreme right is on the rise and the populist far right has become increasingly mainstream. Reflecting on a nonrepresentational drawing approach that responds to distantiated expert eyes by breaking free from their knowledge and pre-defined moral standards of the capitalist city, I explore different lines: lines that commodify the cityscape; lines that cross commodifying categories; lines that creatively produce alternatives; and lines of violent creativity. In so doing, I scrutinize conservative links between a visuality of capital accumulation and fascist urban aesthetics.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Geography and Planning (GEOPL)
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
ISSN: 2373-566X
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 8 April 2021
Date of Acceptance: 8 February 2021
Last Modified: 07 Nov 2023 01:05
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/140372

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