Author: Agn癡s Peysson-Zeiss
Source: Urban Bridges, Global Capital(s): Trans-Mediterranean 幛娶硃紳釵棗莽梯堯癡娶梗s, Edited by Claire Launchbury and Megan C. MacDonald, Liverpool University Press, 2021.
Publication type: Chapter in a book
Abstract: This collection of essays on Trans-Mediterranean Francospheres offers an original examination of cultural production and the flows between urban capitals and capital in and of a selection of Mediterranean cities and sites. In three parts, the book covers both familiar and overlooked terrain, in chapters which examine writing the city, the transit between different poles, film and EU designated cultural capitals. The collection therefore brings together texts and their critical readings in new comparative ways. Following Jacques Derridas peregrinations in LAutre Cap (1991), the volume interrogates the what of Europe; the when or where of Paris; the who of the Mediterranean. Or might the Mediterranean fall under the rubric of paleonomy, that is, as Michael Naas recalls Derridas words in Positions: the strategic necessity that requires the occasional maintenance of an old name in order to launch a new concept.