Kayaking the waters that shaped New York City
Neuropolis: Our relationship with cities from Mumbai to Manhattan. As our cities change, they inspire a change in us: "A new generation of explorers, cyclists and psychogeographers are remapping urban landscapes through non-places. In this expanding urban maze, waymarks — as ever — are key to community cohesion ." Cities are described as "an... See more
Weidenfeld & Nicolson • You Are Here: A Brief Guide to the World
We’d moved from New York, which of course is even more human, human will in steel and concrete raised high, an empire city built to accumulate and exploit, ablaze with the names of its paragons: Morgan, Rockefeller, Chrysler, Trump. Yet the city’s churning cosmopolitan dynamism, human as it may be, remains inextricable from its geological and... See more
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‘Might floating be a form of resistance?’
‘There’s something about floating in a rowboat that puts me in speculative mindsets. The stillness in motion, perhaps. I started putting the oars up and letting the tides and currents take me wherever they take me as an exercise in releasing agency and resisting the desire for control. I think it’s important
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