Slog - Comments on A Movement in the City http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/a_movement_in_the_city It's nice to see black flâneurie sprouting in Seattle. As I have written before, whites tend to be coded as flâneurs, city strollers, those who have the time and freedom to move about and absorb city scenes. Blacks, on the other hand, are coded as loiterers, those who hang out on a street corner or in front of a convenience store watching the city go by. Even if the urban practice of loitering has hardened into a custom, a cultural fact, much of it crumbles when more and more of the city opens up, when one is free to move... Copyright 2008 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:57:00 -0800 Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:58:53 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Will in Seattle I prefer to be an auteur not a haineur.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/a_movement_in_the_city#c1047457 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/a_movement_in_the_city#c1047457 Architecture Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:25:42 -0800 Comment by Ziggity Whose code? Yours or mine, joker?

]]> Ziggity http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/a_movement_in_the_city#c1047481 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/a_movement_in_the_city#c1047481 Architecture Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:33:41 -0800 Comment by The Artist Formerly Known As Sigourney Beaver Dude is stylin'. If you submitted that picture to Vice, they'd classify him as a 'Do'.

]]> The Artist Formerly Known As Sigourney Beaver http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/a_movement_in_the_city#c1047499 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/a_movement_in_the_city#c1047499 Architecture Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:42:12 -0800 Comment by Jeff Stevens Now that the Hip-Hip Nation is finally usurping the Daydream Nation, maybe now we all can simply practice the Dérive instead.

]]> Jeff Stevens http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/a_movement_in_the_city#c1047577 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/a_movement_in_the_city#c1047577 Architecture Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:14:10 -0800 Comment by bronkitis There is no commodity fetishism in the dérive, Mr. Mudede. Thought you'd be more into that.

]]> bronkitis http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/a_movement_in_the_city#c1047605 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/a_movement_in_the_city#c1047605 Architecture Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:29:18 -0800 Comment by Fnarf I'm a little confused. Charles seems to be suggesting that black me should be allowed to walk the streets, as this fellow was. That's a pretty radical point of view all right, for 1608 -- not 2008.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/a_movement_in_the_city#c1047662 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/a_movement_in_the_city#c1047662 Architecture Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:04:48 -0800 Comment by johnnie Charles, no one outside of France is coded as flaneurs besides blatant blatant homosexuals.

]]> johnnie http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/a_movement_in_the_city#c1047663 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/a_movement_in_the_city#c1047663 Architecture Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:05:07 -0800 Comment by Eliza Who took that lovely photo?

]]> Eliza http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/a_movement_in_the_city#c1047674 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/a_movement_in_the_city#c1047674 Architecture Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:09:39 -0800 Comment by You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me Chuck, Let me catch you up. The difference between a flaneur and a loiterer is the crack pipe... (I thought that was oblivious.)

]]> You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/a_movement_in_the_city#c1047675 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/a_movement_in_the_city#c1047675 Architecture Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:09:48 -0800 Comment by Greg That is a cool picture.

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/a_movement_in_the_city#c1047694 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/a_movement_in_the_city#c1047694 Architecture Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:18:06 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi @7,

Are you sure that's not flambée?

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/a_movement_in_the_city#c1047713 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/a_movement_in_the_city#c1047713 Architecture Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:32:14 -0800 Comment by Jubilation T. Cornball @9 -- nice malapropism.

@11 -- homophobe.

]]> Jubilation T. Cornball http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/a_movement_in_the_city#c1047727 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/a_movement_in_the_city#c1047727 Architecture Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:42:44 -0800 Comment by Catalina Vel-DuRay Oh Charlie, I love it when you speak French. It makes me all tingly. Even when I think you're full of kitty litter.

]]> Catalina Vel-DuRay http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/a_movement_in_the_city#c1047801 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/a_movement_in_the_city#c1047801 Architecture Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:49:05 -0800 Comment by Blah! Hey, I took that! His name was Mike, he would probably be pretty happy if he knew he was on this website.

]]> Blah! http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/a_movement_in_the_city#c1047817 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/a_movement_in_the_city#c1047817 Architecture Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:02:16 -0800 Comment by Cookie W. Monster I'm not going to Slog Happy unless this song is on the jukebox.

]]> Cookie W. Monster http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/a_movement_in_the_city#c1047830 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/a_movement_in_the_city#c1047830 Architecture Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:13:25 -0800 Comment by Eliza @14
Awesome work...really beautiful.

]]> Eliza http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/a_movement_in_the_city#c1047929 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/a_movement_in_the_city#c1047929 Architecture Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:54:11 -0800 Comment by You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me @12

Thanks!

]]> You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/a_movement_in_the_city#c1048248 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/a_movement_in_the_city#c1048248 Architecture Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:01:41 -0800 Comment by Lee Gibson I've been white all my life, and I've never flaneured anything. I've filleted, and flambéed, and even done a naughty bit of fricaseeing, but I've never flaneured.

I musta missed a day at White School. Was probably the same day they explained why I was supposed to like Seinfeld.

]]> Lee Gibson http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/a_movement_in_the_city#c1053411 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/a_movement_in_the_city#c1053411 Architecture Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:58:53 -0800