Identify as Interdisciplinary producer – ‘the creative’ is a myth – romanticized

W, Benjamin – author as producer -consume/produce – important to produce

discourse, here, of there & from here.

Cultural production as a form of belonging – investing

Marxist as form of control - Orientalism - colonial idea

Genre theory – rhetoric in ancient Greece, drama prose etc

Becomes more elaborate & representative of social, political, economic structures

Genre theory the director recedes – its about the mood, type of story etc.

Aspects of affect – genre creates mood. Affects emotion

Film, books, food – agreed upon set of variables need in understanding genre.

Looking at genre as layers- relevant to life in GCC: horror of being an immigrant, psychological thriller, veneers of genres laterally, social relationships – fantastical, shared cultural understanding/ assumptions

Use genre to create a lens to see place – use to speak back to outsider – inside to outside

Disinterested gaze – are you allowed to be disengaged?

Enclaves- marina, jlt, malls – malls as public space –

The bridge linking the metro to the mall... no need to step outside, no need to breathe the hot air, so hot it feels like your lungs are burning. building the habit of staying inside, when its cooler, no need to step in to the chilly wind.

Flâneur – a man who saunters around observing society.

Flânuse – female flânuer - Women’s bodies in context of loafing, can women loaf? Or a changed body – how things are read.

‘the keen-eyed stroller who chronicles the minutiae of city life’ – The guardian, Lauren Elkin, July 2016

Hybrid of Flânuer – to encompass driving – speed, wrapped up in genres, class – grammar of dialogue between master planner and constructors. Using the metro...

Authors of city are not natives

Walking is a class ‘thing’

Is it intentionally hybrid – municipality memory, pedestrian areas, DXB, AD, SHJ – remaining places of congregation

Intimacy not relating to emotional – affected

How people know cities – Michel De Certeu – how to inhabit the walking

The ‘peopling’ of the city is how to know the city –

Urbanism – intersections / meeting points

Each city has a different affect

Layers of city are displaced – moved through the areas – each area has its own genre –

Simultaneous genres – where the sidewalk ends the genre ends – difficult to walk from one to another – the legal act of walking – divided city – penetration only possible with vehicle

Intimacy allows for dwelling, - phenomenology – does the city allow for intimacy because of the lack of dwelling?

Could it be seen as diminutive to utilize collective and simple genres to categorize and classify elements or themes of life, which is usually deemed as complex? Is it that we find it complex as individuals but as a collective life is generic? We’re birthed, grow, reproduce, and die; in between we have a collection of experiences in an order that is somewhat common. To classify it in to broad, subversive genres is dualistic in action: collating and rejecting information, group and ungroup persons and the removal of individualism of persons while delving in to the minutiae of an individuals’ story.

To recollect the so-called ‘untold stories’ of the impermanent residents here, is a genre that has been explored by anthropologists, biasedly by the media, and favorably by the government; or the heavily curated and contrasting accounts of the socialites and ‘influencers’ of social media. These genres of narrative manipulate and play to the existing desires of mass consumers of media. Increasingly issues in and of physical space are highlighted in a virtual space via a network society, the sense of reality becoming divertissement, the tuning in to the genres of others lives to tune out our own.

Heredity genres

Genres dictating how work is read

Expat – being ‘from here’ but not ‘of here’

Space in common – the male

Struggle in geography – disconnect

consumption of space per person

Genre as superstructure over the city –

Being conscious that our position is never fixed and can change

Many different positions – partial posterity

Performance of identity – genre of literature on identity politics becoming a genre

Marxist theory of control through genre – is the 'city' constructed in a fashion to create control – provide choices and then struck within them – used a s control

Censorship a- bypassing –

Moving through space that isn’t designed to be moved through

The inviting pristine grass on the untouchable intersection

Multicultural poly-amory

City a story – genre becomes productive – woody Allen feel

Genre allows for calibrated sense of expression

Read it backwards –

Pick a genre, such as rom com, horror , then make a film about labour or race

Genre as capitalist market – working against the niche markets

Self hood as genre - A system of beliefs, suspension of belief - Looming cloud of authenticity – if we remove genre – there is not something else? - If there is a state/time from which genre can be removed – impossible?

Establishing a genre from a ‘test’ one

Genre is constructed and fluid – genre or subgenre

Conceptualize genre as forces or gathering

Semiotics – semantics

classifications
effectives
to create, interpretation and culture larger and feeds into genre

being aware of own genre –

genre as metaphor – expressing what is not expressible, ghost stories – if souls exist, do they maintain closure because of repatriation, why are there few gulf ghost stories

accessing uneasy topics

is trauma resisted here? Everything is asking you to be happy.

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