![]() ![]() Sennett uses the story of watching film as a way of commenting on the place of the body and senses within urban settings and is concerned to document ‘physical sensations in urban space’ as a way of addressing what he sees as the ‘tactile sterility which afflicts the urban environment.’ While Sennett’s work performs an important task by drawing attention to various historical conditions implicated in urban and metropolitan experience, it is possible to rework the categories he deploys – bodies, the city, and film – into a very different argument concerning representations of the city. In the introduction to his history of the relationship between the body and the city in Western civilisation, Richard Sennett includes an anecdote about attending a cinema in New York. Films…testify to bodies that were present before the camera. ![]()
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