#Iain Sinclair

[romdocitizen]

Southwark holds its time, with the City, with Whitechapel, with Clerkenwell, holds the memory of what it was: it is possible to walk back into the previous, as an event, still true to this moment. The Marshalsea trace, the narrative mazetrap that Dickens set, takes over, the figures of fiction outliving the ghostly impulses that started them. The past is a fiction that absorbs us. It needs no passport, turn the corner and it is with you. The things they do there are natural, you do those things. Detached from this shadow you are nothing, there is nothing. You have no other existence.

- iain sinclair, white chappell, scarlet tracings

[less-ismore]

Grant Gee, Patience (after Sebald), 2012.

[dynamobooks]

Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet (1887)

[dare-g]

Books 31-40 of 2023 📖!

[elizabethkiem]

from Pariah Genius

Paris, Athens, Rome Tangier. Sullen dawn streets anticipating the next invasion. Tattered posters from disgraced regimes. Archeological ruins. Cemeteries where women released from unnamed films waited to be noticed on damp tombs. Crowds frozen in prophetic patterns in public squares. Artists striking a pose against more art in white-walled studios. The wealthy, interrupted at table in their palaces, tolerate the temporary intrusion of a person without pedigree. Statues die of boredom in gardens. Statues are lost in sheds. Broken-nosed classical busts in deserted museums...

[werkboileddown]

[rozmorris]

Nothing new under the sun? Why originality is always possible

Here’s something to think about. Around 97% of the time you ever spend with your parents will be before you are 18 years old. Maybe you’ve already heard this statistic, and apparently there’s more than one variation. But I heard it just this week. Dave heard it first, told me.   We boggled. Then, after a moment’s marvelling, we thought about it properly. Of course. That period 0-18 is so…

[downthetubes]

COMICA’s 20th anniversary lineup unveiled

An amazing lineup of comic creatives celebrate COMICA’s 20th anniversary next month in London, including Lucie Arnoux, Brian Bolland, Dave Gibbons, Armando Iannucci, Dave McKean, Martin Rowson, Posy Simmonds, Lucy Sullivan and more

The full lineup of comic creators for Comica, The London Comics Festival, at The Century Club taking place in March has been announced, and includes appearances by Lucie Arnoux, Brian Bolland, Dave Gibbons, Armando Iannucci, Dave McKean, Martin Rowson, Posy Simmonds, Lucy Sullivan and more. Marking the 20th Anniversary of London’s long-running Comica Festival, and in association with VIP Brands…

[d834256]

Iain Sinclair, "London Orbital".

[clownaboutofficial]

Pat Naldi & Wendy Kirkup, Search. 1993

Millennium Bug public information leaflet, 1999

Rachel Whiteread, Untitled (house). 1993

Iain Sinclair & Brian Catling, Lud Heat map. 1975

[romdocitizen]

We have gone so fast that we are ahead: we are describing what has not yet happened, and what does not now need to happen. We have made arrangements to foreshorten the future.

Always erasure, not exorcism. Exorcism merely confers status on the exorcist: who claims, falsely, that he has the power to unmake. Has tricks to stake the demonic, nail the black heart.

Erasure acts over, is a discretion.

- iain sinclair, white chappell, scarlet tracings

[ensoledadminido]

«Este es un libro sobre desapariciones. Prácticamente todo lo que aparecerá (edificios, lugares, personas) ya no está, pero sin embargo sigue ahí», escribe Rocha al principio de este libro inclasificable, a medio camino entre la crónica personal, la guía insólita y psicogeográfica y el cuaderno de bitácora. Un diario de viaje hasta los confines de Madrid siguiendo los «caminos del deseo», aquellos que crea espontáneamente el paso de las personas o los animales. Con este paseo, en un solo día, se intenta resolver la desaparición de José Ribalta Camós, un oftalmólogo que en 1916 decidió caminar en línea recta hacia el norte desde la Puerta del Sol. El resultado es una historia de historias, un viaje al final de la ciudad que por momentos recuerda a W.G. Sebald, Iain Sinclair o a un Trapiello infinitamente más intrincado y oscuro.

[dynamobooks]

smoky man (ed.): Alan Moore: Portraits of an Extraordinary Gentleman (2023)

[dare-g]

The Falconer (1998)

[therivershit]

Brian Catling's map from Iain Sinclair's Lud Heat, 1975