Comments for Iain Sinclair http://www.iainsinclair.org.uk Official Unofficial Website (Sanctioned by Author) Sat, 17 Jul 2010 00:32:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Comment on London Psychogeophysics Summit, London 2010 by Jonathan Kemp http://www.iainsinclair.org.uk/2010/05/21/london-psychogeophysics-summit-london-2010/comment-page-1/#comment-1174 Jonathan Kemp Sat, 17 Jul 2010 00:32:48 +0000 http://www.iainsinclair.org.uk/?p=985#comment-1174 You can find out more here: http://www.psychogeophysics.org/wiki/doku.php?id=summit:desc You can find out more here:

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]]> Comment on London Psychogeophysics Summit, London 2010 by thais http://www.iainsinclair.org.uk/2010/05/21/london-psychogeophysics-summit-london-2010/comment-page-1/#comment-1008 thais Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:42:50 +0000 http://www.iainsinclair.org.uk/?p=985#comment-1008 Please I'd like to receive more information about London Psychogeophysics Summit. Thank You, Thais Please I’d like to receive more information about London Psychogeophysics Summit.

Thank You,
Thais

]]> Comment on ‘Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire’ shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize by gorllewin http://www.iainsinclair.org.uk/2010/05/21/hackney-that-rose-red-empire-shortlisted-for-the-ondaatje-prize/comment-page-1/#comment-741 gorllewin Sat, 29 May 2010 11:16:03 +0000 http://www.iainsinclair.org.uk/?p=987#comment-741 just bought a 2 hand copy of london orbital, and reminded of the impression the film made a few years ago now. i spent a few years in the 80s hitching around so quite familiar with the lurid yet fascinating world of the motorway siding. but i agree M25 has a strangeness above most others. but my experience most similar to that of lon.orbital was when i was studying events in paris of 1870-71. a trip to a prittified capital where even the commune is on the tourist trail. but back in london by chance i stumbled on a privately printed copy of an account of the siege, virtually unknown. i resolved to find out more. the author was a priest called rev. brine but very little else was known apart from his place of deceasement, which turned out to be a forgotten church by the westway, all the exiting traffic thundering past oblivious. but he didnt seem to be the vicar there, so another mystery. i went in to enquire further and got yelled at by a tour guide who thought id tried to sneak in with her troupe. an odd day out, not much solved, and very sad. just bought a 2 hand copy of london orbital, and reminded of the impression the film made a few years ago now.
i spent a few years in the 80s hitching around so quite familiar with the lurid yet fascinating world of the motorway siding. but i agree M25 has a strangeness above most others.
but my experience most similar to that of lon.orbital was when i was studying events in paris of 1870-71.
a trip to a prittified capital where even the commune is on the tourist trail. but back in london
by chance i stumbled on a privately printed copy of an account of the siege, virtually unknown. i resolved to find out more. the author was a priest called rev. brine but very little else was known apart from his place of deceasement, which turned out to be a forgotten church by the westway, all the exiting traffic thundering past oblivious. but he didnt seem to be the vicar there, so another mystery. i went in to enquire further and got yelled at by a tour guide who thought id tried to sneak in with her troupe. an odd day out, not much solved, and very sad.

]]> Comment on “ATHENS NOTES AND QUOTES FOR AN UNMADE MOVIE” by Iain Sinclair (with pictures by the Author) by admin http://www.iainsinclair.org.uk/2010/03/16/athens-notes-and-quotes-for-an-unmade-movie/comment-page-1/#comment-724 admin Fri, 28 May 2010 13:20:02 +0000 http://www.iainsinclair.org.uk/?p=808#comment-724 The reason I love so much Iain Sinclair's books, stories and perception of the environment around him is exactly this feeling of disillusioned realism that some people might call negativity, ugliness but that is the pure essence of reality. The world out there is dirty, it stinks, it's filthy and the splendour is mixed with the ugly. The glass can be half empty or half full. Misery and ugliness are around us and Iain Sinclair, to me, has a unique and unmatched clarity in putting all of this in words. I think Iain Sinclair represents a unique point of view which has the same right to exist and be expressed as that of the self-celebratory story tellers of touristic offices and boards who must focus on the "splendour". We also need to account for the fact that the "splendour" of historical cities like athens or rome or london itself, if partly the splendour of long gone civilisations and that the modern state of things has nothing to do with that long lost past. The reason I love so much Iain Sinclair’s books, stories and perception of the environment around him is exactly this feeling of disillusioned realism that some people might call negativity, ugliness but that is the pure essence of reality. The world out there is dirty, it stinks, it’s filthy and the splendour is mixed with the ugly. The glass can be half empty or half full. Misery and ugliness are around us and Iain Sinclair, to me, has a unique and unmatched clarity in putting all of this in words.
I think Iain Sinclair represents a unique point of view which has the same right to exist and be expressed as that of the self-celebratory story tellers of touristic offices and boards who must focus on the “splendour”.
We also need to account for the fact that the “splendour” of historical cities like athens or rome or london itself, if partly the splendour of long gone civilisations and that the modern state of things has nothing to do with that long lost past.

]]> Comment on “ATHENS NOTES AND QUOTES FOR AN UNMADE MOVIE” by Iain Sinclair (with pictures by the Author) by Laughing at You http://www.iainsinclair.org.uk/2010/03/16/athens-notes-and-quotes-for-an-unmade-movie/comment-page-1/#comment-723 Laughing at You Fri, 28 May 2010 13:01:15 +0000 http://www.iainsinclair.org.uk/?p=808#comment-723 Mr. Sinclair, you clearly went looking for the ugly and, naturally, you found it. One always can. You always have. You also clearly missed Athens's indescribable splendour! Don't ever bother coming back! Miserabilists like you are not needed here. Mr. Sinclair, you clearly went looking for the ugly and, naturally, you found it. One always can. You always have. You also clearly missed Athens’s indescribable splendour! Don’t ever bother coming back! Miserabilists like you are not needed here.

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