Vice, Crime, and Poverty by Kalifa Dominique;Emanuel Susan;

Author:Kalifa, Dominique;Emanuel, Susan;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: SOC026030, Social Science/Sociology/Urban, HIS010020, History/Europe/Western
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc. (Tier 3)
Published: 2019-04-16T00:00:00+00:00

Our final scenario is quite different in nature: roaming the underworld is a poetic endeavor that combines nostalgia, populism, and a certain fascination with transgression—with the certainty (even if implicit or rudimentary) that some form of reality (otherwise inaccessible) lies at the heart of these representations. The streets and wastelands, the rubble and trash piles, the slums and slaughterhouses, the scaffolding and heavy fog that cover communal pits, all bespeak something about life that cannot be found elsewhere. Significations are entangled and do not lead in any specific direction; here the “poetic” dissimulates (behind words, images, or melodies) a refusal of any explanation, any univocal reading. Meaning seems to be exhausted in a sort of flight that is open to any interpretation. We owe to Romanticism, in its most bohemian and darkest version, the first expressions of this desperate underworld, but it became established primarily through the plaintive accents of realistic songs or guitar chords, the dead and cold angles of photography, the tragic and artificial settings of “poetic realism.”

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