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‘The Sounds of Silence’: Writing Urban Spaces
Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1870-0809
2018 (English)In: Geomedia Studies: Spaces and Mobilities in Mediatized Worlds / [ed] Karin Fast; André Jansson; Johan Lindell; Linda Ryan Bengtsson; Mekonnen Tesfahuney, New York: Routledge, 2018, p. 114-131Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This chapter explores the communicative, spatial and institutional in-between emplacements of graffiti in conversation with Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's concept of nomadology. It shows how Swedish graffiti writers relate to these in-betweennesses, through ethnographic fieldwork. Related to in-betweenness is the intervening character of graffiti. By intervening, refer to the moments when graffiti functions as disturbances of the hegemonies of the urban. This will entail a focus on what the makers consider themselves to be intervening in, why they are doing it, how they regard the city and how/if they envision other alternatives. The chapter provides an ethnographic exploration of how makers of graffiti are (de)territorializing urban space through aesthetic and spatial interventions in Stockholm. It suggests that writing graffiti can be considered performing a spatial and aesthetic politics. In terms of urban communication, aesthetic and space 'becoming-graffiti' is fundamentally subversive and exterior.

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New York: Routledge, 2018. p. 114-131
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Routledge research in cultural and media studies ; 114
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Media and Communication Studies
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Media and Communication Studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-118819ISBN: 9781315410210 (electronic)ISBN: 9781138221529 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-118819DiVA, id: diva2:1930894
Available from: 2025-01-24 Created: 2025-01-24 Last updated: 2025-02-11Bibliographically approved

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