The Politics of the Pile. Material Imagination and Improvisation in the 1871 Paris Commune

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aut.relation.endpage69
aut.relation.issue21en_NZ
aut.relation.journalInterstices: Journal of Architecture and Related Artsen_NZ
aut.relation.startpage53
aut.researcherDouglas, Carl
dc.contributor.authorDouglas, Cen_NZ
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-04T01:52:22Z
dc.date.available2022-04-04T01:52:22Z
dc.date.copyright2022-03-30en_NZ
dc.date.issued2022-03-30en_NZ
dc.description.abstractIn the Paris Commune of 1871, collectives, collective action, and shared spaces were imagined through metaphors of mounding and scattering. This article explores the material imagination that underlies these metaphors and several improvised urban constructions through which they manifested. In particular, it refers to a mound of sticks and manure built to cushion the fall of the monumental Vendôme Column, heaps of meaningless consumer goods, impromptu barricades piled up in the streets, stellar matter imagined by Auguste Blanqui, conjugations of terms in poems by Arthur Rimbaud, and ultimately the piled bodies of the Communards themselves. This shared preoccupation, I suggest, enabled collective improvisation and the “articulation work” of cobbling together a new public world (Star and Strauss, 1999: 10).en_NZ
dc.identifier.citationInterstices: Journal of Architecture and Related Arts, 53-69. https://doi.org/10.24135/ijara.vi.690
dc.identifier.doi10.24135/ijara.vi.690en_NZ
dc.identifier.issn1170-585Xen_NZ
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10292/15037
dc.publisherenigma : he aupiki charitable trust
dc.relation.urihttps://interstices.ac.nz/index.php/Interstices/article/view/690en_NZ
dc.rightsCopyright (c) 2022 Douglas Carl. Creative Commons License. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccessen_NZ
dc.subjectPublic spaceen_NZ
dc.subjectPoliticsen_NZ
dc.subjectMaterial imaginationen_NZ
dc.subjectParis, Franceen_NZ
dc.titleThe Politics of the Pile. Material Imagination and Improvisation in the 1871 Paris Communeen_NZ
dc.typeJournal Article
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