/453/ Reading Club: Place 1 - Simmel/Berman
Bungacast19 Nov 2024

/453/ Reading Club: Place 1 - Simmel/Berman

On the maelstrom of the metropolis.

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We kick of the 2024/25 syllabus with the first theme, The Future of Place, asking, is politics possible without a sense of place. We discuss Georg Simmel's short essay "Metropolis and Mental Life" and Marshall Berman's All That Is Solid Melts into Air (chapter 5, on New York).

  • How does Simmel relate the metropolitan condition to a historical passage from the 18th century to the 19th?

  • Is city life intellectual and blasé, versus small town emotionality?

  • Is narcissism built into modernity? Is there an aristocratic individualist revolt in evidence today?

  • Do we need places to hang out in before we can do political organising?

  • Are we nostalgic for top-down modernisation?

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