1. Concepts and Practices of the Underground

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Acknowledgements 7
4. Foreword 9
5. 1. Concepts and Practices of the Underground 13
6. Part 1: Projections
7. 2. Metromania or the Undersides of Painting 23
8. 3. Mapping Utopia: Debord and Constant between Amsterdam and Paris 37
9. 4. Amsterdam’s Sexual Underground in the 1960s 49
10. Part 2: Mobility
11. 5. Detours, Delays, Derailments: La Petite Jérusalem and Slow Training in Culture 65
12. 6. Underground Visions: Strategies of Resistance along the Amsterdam Metro Lines 77
13. 7. Underground Circulation: The Beats in Paris and Beyond 97
14. Part 3: Visibility
15. 8. (In)audible Frequencies: Sounding out the Contemporary Branded City 115
16. 9. Red Lights and Legitimate Trade: Paying for Sex in the Branded City 133
17. 10. Visibly Underground: When Clandestine Workers Take the Law into Their Own Hands 147
18. 11. Archaeology of the Parisian Underground 159
19. Bibliography 171
20. Illustrations 183
21. Contributors 185
22. Index 189