Paris-Amsterdam Underground
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Paris-Amsterdam Underground
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword
1. Concepts and Practices of the Underground
Paris-Amsterdam
Hipsters and Counterculture
Urban War Games
Projections, Mobility, Visibility
Future City
Part 1: Projections
2. Metromania or the Undersides of Painting
The Underneath of Paris
The Undersides of Painting
Underground and Avant-Garde
3. Mapping Utopia: Debord and Constant between Amsterdam and Paris
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4. Amsterdam’s Sexual Underground in the 1960s
A sleepy town turns into a sex capital
From the 1950s on
Male Youth Cultures: Nozems and Provos
Sexual Movements
Mediatization
Nude Shows
The Dogmatic Turn
Rise and Fall of the Sexual Revolution
Afterword
Note
Part 2: Mobility
5. Detours, Delays, Derailments: La Petite Jérusalem and Slow Training in Culture
Culture as travel
Detours as Delays
Destination as Detour
Some Terminal Points
6. Underground Visions: Strategies of Resistance along the Amsterdam Metro Lines
Introduction
History, Part 1: The Origins of the Amsterdam Metro
History, Part 2: The Nieuwmarkt
Protests and Activism in Nieuwmarkt
Memorials in the Metro: Greetings from the Nieuwmarkt
The Film
Conclusion
Notes
7. Underground Circulation: The Beats in Paris and Beyond
The Beats in Paris
Beat Circulation
Theorizing the Underground
Possibilities for the Underground Today
Note
Part 3: Visibility
8. (In)audible Frequencies: Sounding out the Contemporary Branded City
The City as Brand: City-Marketing and the Creative City
Enchantment and Consumption within the Night-time Cityscape
Sonic Variations, Inaudible Interventions
9. Red Lights and Legitimate Trade: Paying for Sex in the Branded City
Introduction
Historical Notes: Painting and Prostitution
Re-Writing Heritage, Re-Branding the City
Artists, Pimps, and Whores
Conclusion
10. Visibly Underground: When Clandestine Workers Take the Law into Their Own Hands
‘N’entre pas sans violence dans la nuit’ – ‘Show Your Cards’
11. Archaeology of the Parisian Underground
Introduction: Digging in the Underground
From Souterrain to Underground: A Brief Archaeology
A Guide through the Paris Underground
Mapping the Underground
Notes
Bibliography
Illustrations
Contributors
Index
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