Abstract
This consideration of Iain Sinclair’s work begins at the summit of Beckton Alp, a pile of waste in London’s east which has been reconstituted as recreational space. The Alp is a topographical curiosity, and its unconventional history has prompted serial visits in Sinclair’s fiction and non-fiction. Importantly, it also functions for Sinclair as a totem signifying the pervasive regulatory influence of Panopticism in contemporary urban culture.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | City Visions: the Work of Iain Sinclair |
Editors | Robert Bond, Jenny Bavidge |
Place of Publication | U.K. |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 99-107 |
Number of pages | 9 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781847181534 |
Publication status | Published - 2007 |
Keywords
- Sinclair, Iain, 1943
- London (England)
- obscenery