Modular bodies and architecture as skin: J.G. Ballard (1956-1975) -- Human ruins and architectural spectres (the 1980s and beyond) -- Traumatized subjects and chaotic substances: Iain Sinclair (the 1990s and the millennium) -- Corporeality within abstract space (from the 1970s to the post-millennial)
Summary
This book analyses the spatial politics of a range of British novelists writing on London since the 1950s, emphasizing spatial representation as an embodied practice at the point where the architectural landscape and the body enter into relation with each other. Colombino visits the city in connection with its boundaries, abstract spaces and natural microcosms, as they stand in for all the conflicting realms of identity; its interstices and ruins are seen as inhabited by bodies that reproduce internally the external conditions of political and social struggle. The study brings into focus th
