FRIENDLY REMINDER: if you click REPLY to this email, you will be sending a message to over 300 subscribers. Please do so only if you wish to respond to everyone.If I may add a footnote to the Flaneur/Flaneuse/FlanX* debate and whatever the final blessed entry ends up being:* While contemporary debates over the gendering, not gendering, and un-gendering of walking subjects continue to unfold, it can be noted that the gendering of nouns and pronouns retained still in Latinic languages are the breadcrumbs that lead us back to a pre-modern, animistic Europe where 'objects' were persons with agency and social capacities. Rather than denoting the binary sexualized-gendering of passive objects, the gendering of other-than-human beings was a recognition of personhood in the same way that ships, guitars, or cars are sometimes still gendered in English today to represent a deep bond of affection and mutuality.Christos Galanis
PhD Candidate - Human Geography
University Of Edinburgh, ScotlandOn Sunday, January 27, 2019, 11:37:33 a.m. CST, Diana Wesser <[log in to unmask]> wrote:Dear all,
I would like to mention, that the word „Flâneuse“ also has a political meaning, so it could be an entry in the dictionary itself. Usually the word „flaneur“ is refered to men and rarely to women. Walking alone in the city
as a woman can be a political act.
I refer to books like "Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London" by Lauren Elkin and Streetwalking the Metropolis. Women, the City and Modernity (2000) by Deborah Parsons.
Flâneuse [flanne-euhze], noun, from the French. Feminine form of flâneur [flanne-euhr], is not just the counterpart of the typical/classical flaneur, she does not have to adjust to the masculine definition of the term, but the concept of the flaneur and of the practice of the flaneur have to be re-conceptualise. I’m not very good with dictionary-like descritpions in English, so maybe someone else who is familiar with feminist theory can help?As the word is coming from French it has a clear male connotation, especially for a non-native Englisch speaker like me. And behind the background of how different it still can be to (aimlessly) walk in a city especially at nights for women and man, I like the idea of having the word Flâneuse in a dictionary of waking art.Hi BillFRIENDLY REMINDER: if you click REPLY to this email, you will be sending a message to over 300 subscribers. Please do so only if you wish to respond to everyone.Like your definition ...a couple of ideas .... getting rid of the binary in naming ? Or perhaps using a “they” form of flaneur ? Or?And do we include vectors, energy fields, etc?Not sure about this but thinking of the evolving bodies that walk - or walk in imagination ....As a disability artist I am more the latter lol....PamSent from my iPhoneFRIENDLY REMINDER: if you click REPLY to this email, you will be sending a message to over 300 subscribers. Please do so only if you wish to respond to everyone.Dear all
It is indeed a good idea! I don't know if this helps but a result of my PhD was the suggestion of a term 'hybrid flaneur/flaneuse'. Please find an excerpt of what hybrid flaneur is:
"..Hybrid flaneur/flaneuse has become a performative "orchestrator" of steps and technologies - of sensory and emotional encounters. It is this oscillation between the poetic, the socio-technological, the geographical and the emotional that shifts the meaning of flanerie and walking in the 21st century. Hybrid flaneur/flaneuse can be also described in line with the cultural and aesthetic trajectories of the 20th century ambulatory practices. Therefore, a hybrid flaneur/flaneuse could be a creative merging of the romanticised view of early flaneur, the radical tactics and political implications of psychogeography and the performative/site-oriented elements of Fluxus and Land Art - all considered through a wide range of embodied media, social and geographical sensitivities. " (Psarras, 2015: 2018-219) (available here)
I am also having an ongoing arts-based postdoctoral research on the creative link between site-specific walking performance, objects and geohumanities - but I'll post here a few things in the near future in case it is related with the Walking Art Dictionary
Best wishes
Bill
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