Will Self

The great French philosopher of the quotidian, Michel de Certeau, argued that “space is practiced place.” What he meant by this is that while places are given spatio-temporal locations, commonly assented to, space is the particular way we choose — both as individuals and groups — to inhabit or … Continue Reading

On the wall of the sitting room in my small, Edwardian villa in the inner-London suburb of Stockwell (think Brixton, then walk back towards the center of town a little), I have hung a panorama of London. Drawn, then engraved and hand-colored, this handsome hybridization of a map and a prospect was … Continue Reading