Paris-Amsterdam Underground
Christoph Lindner
Paris-Amsterdam Underground
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The postwar histories of Paris and Amsterdam have been significantly defined by the notion of the “underground” as both a material and metaphorical space. Examining the underground traffic between the two cities, this book interrogates the countercultural histories of Paris and Amsterdam in the mid to late-twentieth century. Shuttling between Paris and Amsterdam, as well as between postwar avant-gardism and twenty-first century global urbanism, this interdisciplinary book seeks to create a mirroring effect over the notion of the underground as a driving force in the making of the contemporary European city.

De naoorlogse geschiedenis van Parijs en Amsterdam wordt sterk gedefinieerd door underground culturen, zowel in fysieke als in metaforische zin. Dit boek bekijkt de culturele uitwisseling tussen beide steden en onderzoekt de geschiedenis van tegencultuur in Parijs en Amsterdam in de tweede helft van de twintigste eeuw. Door steeds heen en weer te schakelen tussen Parijs en Amsterdam, en door de spanning tussen naoorlogs avant-gardisme en de kosmopolitische stad van de eenentwintigste eeuw in kaart te brengen, weerspiegelt dit boek de drijvende kracht van de culturele underground in de grote steden van hedendaags Europa.

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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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