شهر در حال نوسان: جغرافیای فرهنگی لندن 1950–1974 (بازسازی جغرافیای فرهنگی)

This book works with two contrasting imaginings of 1960s London: the one of the excess and comic vacuousness of Swinging London, the other of the radical and experimental cultural politics generating by the city's counter-culture. The connections between these two scenes is mapped looking firstly at the spectacular events that shaped post-war London, then moves through the modernist physical and social reconstruction of the city together with artistic experiments such as Pop Art. The book then looks at the replacement of this seemingly materialistic image with the counter-culture of Underground London from the mid-1960s. The book argues that these disparate threads cohere around a shared imagination associated with a new understanding of nature which differently positioned humanity and technology. Post-war London reasserted itself as a cultural capital, often by appropriating cultural innovations from the provinces and by exploiting its strategic international position. This book is an attempt to address the gap in our understanding of the dynamics of this transformation. Annotation This book works with two contrasting imaginings of 1960s London: the one of the excess and comic vacuousness of Swinging London, the other of the radical and experimental cultural politics generated by the city's counterculture. The connections between these two scenes are mapped looking firstly at the spectacular events that shaped post-war London, then at the modernist physical and social reconstruction of the city alongside artistic experiments such as Pop and Op Art. Making extensive use of London's underground press the book then explores the replacement of this seemingly materialistic image with the counterculture of underground London from the mid-1960s. Swinging City develops the argument that these disparate threads cohere around a shared cosmology associated with a new understanding of nature which differently positioned humanity and technology. The book tracks a moment in the historical geography of London during which the city asserts itself as a post-imperial global city. Swinging London it argues, emerged as the product of this recapitalisation, by absorbing avant-garde developments from the provinces and a range of transnational, mainly transatlantic, influences Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 6 List of Figures......Page 8 Preface......Page 10 1 Introduction: The Material and Immaterial Geographies of 1960s London......Page 12 2 The Long Front of Material and Immaterial Culture I: Beat and Angry......Page 32 3 The Long Front of Material and Immaterial Culture II: Architecture and Visual Culture......Page 50 4 Mapping Swinging London......Page 76 5 A Historical Geography of Countercultural London......Page 94 6 Rephrasing and Reimagining Dissent: Technology, Nature and Humanity......Page 112 7 Oz, London and Cosmic Consciousness......Page 132 8 Lightshows and Multi-media Environments: Cosmic Connections and the Countercultural Subject......Page 156 9 Conclusions: Post-War Vision and Representation......Page 170 References......Page 178 Index......Page 194 This Book Contrasts Two Imaginings Of 1960s London: The Excess And Comic Vacuousness Of Swinging London, And The Radical Politics Generated By The City's Counter-culture. These Disparate Perspectives Combine To Form A Shared Imagination Associated With A New Understanding Of Nature, Which Differently Positioned Humanity And Technology. A Study Of This Transformation Allows For A New Understanding Of The Dynamics Of Post-war London's Re-emergence As A Cultural Capital.