GGR360H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Gas Lighting, Dandy, Voyeurism
16 Jun 2020
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Key points from previous class: tropicality: the idea of the tropics" (paradise/disease, underdevelopment) as distinct from. Temperate" environments: consolidated in the 18th and 19th centuries, still persistent today, and found in certain landscape visions and representations of tropical" places: exploration, empire, and the darkness" of urban poverty: william booth"s (salvation army) in. Relationship between photography and idea of the detective/detective ction. How this changed understandings of cities, who moved through them and were experts on certain parts of them. A scandal in bohemia: photograph as a form of evidence for a form of indiscretion - as a form of truth. Holmes seeing the city with an almost photographic, inhuman precision. Botanizing on the asphalt: the aneur (the stroller) The freedom to move about the city alone was denied to most people presenting as female. Impossible to separate this from a kind of urban masculinity.
