Desire and the Abject in the City Becoming-Other

Bibliographic Data

ID3000761
AuthorsJeff Fitzgerald (0000-0002-8881-5698, The University of Melbourne, corresponding author), John Fitzgerald (0000-0003-0255-0957), Terry Threadgold (Cardiff University)
Year1970
Volume13
Issue1
Publication date1970-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCultural Studies Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1446-8123 • E-ISSN: 1837-8692
PublisherUniversity of Technology, Sydney (UTS) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5130/csr.v13i1.2157
OpenAlexW1981453141
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited1

When The Age renamed the corner of Russell and Bourke streets the 'Golden Elbow' it brought the city into close proximity with an altogether different city. Neither Chang Mai, Hong Kong nor Melbourne, the Golden Elbow was defined by what it could be. Neither one thing (Melbourne) nor another (somewhere else), the Golden Elbow is a space of the city-becoming-other. Through narrative work and news media maps of no-go zones, machines mobilise fear and thus value, from the desire flowing through this abject zone. Capitalism sucks value from these encounters through the production of fear as affect. The city-becoming-other is both enormously productive, and destructive of bodies caught up in the mix. This article explores the flow of desire and the abject of a city becoming other through a street drug marketplace. The encounter with the abject brings use closer to the beauty and fear of ontological mixity

Aesthetics · Art · Beauty · Capital (architecture · Capital city · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Project commissioning · Publishing · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Visual arts · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Gender Studies · Irish and British Studies

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