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A (slightly edited) passage from Lindsay Bremner’s draft for “Citiness as Literariness”

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A (slightly edited) passage from Lindsay Bremner’s draft for “Citiness as Literariness” [PDF]. Found via Networked_Performance.
The city asserts its otherness in a number of ways.
Firstly, it exposes us to an excessive presence of others, of strangers, who call into question our ownership of the world.
Second…the city annihilates authorship. It is most certainly a made artifact, [...]