ABSTRACT
Molly Nesbit, referring to the archive documents of Eugene Atget throughout, places Atget's photograph entitled 'Corsets' opposite (en face) these considered introductory questions. Indeed, Atget's photograph of a shop window, 'Corsets' could be considered as the very image that renders these questions pictorial. Capitalistic expansive cities are present in the texts that follow, but they are not necessarily located as the central impetus for co-habitual cities. Local incoherent specificities run within and alongside. Overlapped and under-lapped—acoustic images of the worlds going on underground. Cities are suffocated by dualisms—commonly constructed via the feminine seductive call/the masculine phallic topology and bi-polar models of political resistance. Common sense would perhaps have us view the relationship between a city and its inhabitants as one of container and contained, whereas even the most cursory exploration of urban dynamics reveal this to be a crude simplification.
