Territories

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Territories Tolerance

• Resistance Battles...

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But first...

• Workshop
• Group Presentations
• Critical Reflection Paper 25 (Due Sunday
  August 4th_at_ 2330h)

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Young Brighenti

• Applied / Theoretical
• Definition
• Youngs case demonstrates the point made by
  Brighenti
• Walls as strategy...
• Governmentality

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Brighenti

• Social Theory Lens
• Cultural geography
• What is precisely public in public space?

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Defining graffiti....

• Problematic (Young)
• Interstitial practice
• When interrogated from each perspective yes,
  but....
• Common denominator materiality

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Because...

1. Global context street
2. Legislation vs. creativity
3. Tools techniques of the body
4. Simplistic/complex lifestyle
5. Architecture as affordances (not things)

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For example Hip Hop

• Trope infection suggestion (Brighenti, 2010321)

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Walls as Artefacts Strategy

• Why does a municipality care about walls?

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Strategy

• Governmentality (Foucault)
• Procedural power
• Historical emergence of knowleges about such
  powers/populations
• Application of tools
• Administrative state

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Walls as Visable Territorial Devices

• Graffiti as Tactical Strategy...
• Citizens are imagined in walls
• (Official Graffiti, Hermer Hunt)
• Graffiti challenges these narratives with at
  hand tools (bricolage)

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Public scene as composition

• The street the birth and target of graffiti
• Youngs research
• Confusion about public space (target for
  education)

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Graffiti poses two questions Public

• What is a writer?
• What is public space?
• Restrictive/Utilitarian
• Permissive/Antiquity

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Territory

• Tags create territory
• Graffiti IS territory
• It does not end at the wall
• Community
• All is not resistance...

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Walls...

• ...are governmental tools that set limits and
  impasses, and complimentary allowed paths and
  trajectories...
• Writers see walls as invitations to continue the
  conversation about public space...

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If everything is a wall...

• Critical thinking...

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Young

• Please review the details on your own
• Important for your presentations...
• Governing murals
• Impact of administration
• The 4 Es....

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Ottawa Permission Policing
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Before we go...

• Critical Reflection Paper
• Assignment Guidelines
• Formatting Guidelines
• Group Work...
• Attendance policy
• Presentation