Episode 6 : Affect and the city 

In this episode we explore how space can be queered through fiction; through continuously recreating the affective dimensions of queer space, can fiction problematise the attempted containment, erasure or supposedly ‘temporary’ nature of queerness in public spaces? Inspired by works such as Call Me by Your Name, Young Mungo and Nevada, this episode considers the centrality of memories and past affective resonances to the materiality of space, as well as how existing in an affective bind between the anticipation of an ending and the promise of a (spatial) ‘otherwise’ shapes the rhythms and directions of queer mobility. 

References:

Aciman, A. (2017) Call me by your name. Bloomsbury: Atlantic Books.

Ahmed, S. (2006) Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, objects, others. Durham: Duke University Press.

Anderson, B. (2022) “Forms and Scenes of Attachment: A Cultural Geography of Promises”, Dialogues in Human Geography (online early).

Azzouz, A. and Catterall, P. (2021) Queering Public Space, Arup. [online] Available at: https://www.arup.com/perspectives/publications/research/section/queering-public-space 

Binnie, I. (2022) Nevada. London: Picador. 

Edelman, L. (2004) No future: Queer theory and the death drive. Durham: Duke University Press.

Kelaita, P. (2022) Tracks to gay elsewheres: cultural attachment and spatial imaginaries. cultural geographies 29(4), 531-545

Middleton, J. (2022) The walkable city: Dimensions of walking and overlapping walks of life. London: Routledge.

Results Day 2024 by @sammoirsmith available at: Samuel Moir-Smith (@sammoirsmith) • Instagram photos and videos

Stuart, D. (2023) Young Mungo. London: Picador. 

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