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I’ve just finished reading Spirits of Place, edited by John Reppion, the Daily Grail-published collection of writings on place, narrative, history and spirit. I was not disappointed.Reppion opened by – among other things – describing an event of the same name he organized earlier in 2016 hosted on the same site as a degraded Neolithic tomb. The event itself raised sacred space in spectacular fashion and is, perhaps, a lesson and charge for the coming year without the participants having known ju...
O principio non me enteraba de nada. Mais gustoume e foime útil que o libro se repetise e xirase sobre o mesmo unha e outra vez e pivota sobre o Genius Loci unha e outra vez, coas voltas acaba aparecendo diante de ti unha sorte de sentido no libro. Distintos lugares pero unha narrativa e as pezas caen no seu sitio.Tamén hai chulería e boas bostas no libro, derivadas da pretensión cultista que arrodea a Alan Moore. Paréceme in-críbel que ninguén corrixise Teatro de Tordesillas por Tratado de Tord...
Hard one to star, due to the nature of this being a) essentially a mix tape, almost a sampler, of various artists and backgrounds, and b) I see the idea behind it is to explore an idea, like exploring a city. There may be bits you like and don't like, but really it's about the fact you're experiencing something unique, which exists. So it took me a while, and I went away and came back, and enjoyed some parts more than others. Which explains the 3 stars. But I love the idea, and on the whole, the...
Collection of essays concerned with the echoes/memories of place or points in time utilising psychogeography as a signifier of being. Some authors are stalwarts of the psychogeography canon (Iain Sinclair, Warren Ellis, Alan Moore) whilst others are less well known or even new to the genre. This 'newness' does sometimes display itself in the writing style, but each essay is included on merit and has something unique to say about the place(s) we inhabit.
unevenly curated, but well worth the price for the ellis, williams, chandrasekera, & moreno-garcia pieces.
weird and weirdly resonant with current events, best read with an open mind.
Highly recommended, even for people not given to mystical woo-woo.I bought this book on the merits of Warren Ellis and Damien Williams, whose contribution alone would have been worth the price of admission, and found it an engaging exploration of the intersection between history, art, technology, language and magic(k).Each piece is an exploration starting with a place and sometimes a time, or more accurately a sense of time, unspooling outwards along one (or more) of those arms; our explorers do...
The stated concept of Spirits of Place was intriguing: a hauntological survey of places in which the authors felt the inescapable presence of all that had come before. In application, however, the book is uneven, which perhaps is to be expected whenever you have a collection of essays by different authors. Some of the essays herein are genuinely interested in obscure knowledge, focusing on a locale - a city, a coastline, a landmark - and exploring all of the human history that has shaped it, bot...
Me senti imediatamente atraída pelo título, porque a questão do Genius loci (o "espírito do lugar" latino) sempre me interessou. Ecos de pessoas, eventos ou ideias que persistem em determinada localidade, e como os atuais ocupantes (ou visitantes) dessas terras reagem a essas memórias. Falando assim, parece mais místico e new age do que de fato é. Eu estou, na verdade, sempre pensando em memória e recriação. Depois, vi que havia ensaios do Warren Ellis e do Alan Moore, dois escritores para quem
Unfortunately (but a little expectedly), only the article by Warren Ellis is worth being read. No, not even Alan Moore's piece is any good. But the rest is worse. And it was a bit expected from the ranting, messy introduction, but the first article was the first nail in the coffin: the psycho-pop hippy and utterly irrelevant rant of a person that makes a point to remind you how cool she is for being a vegan at every page while delivering the most unimpressive commentary on the Shoah I could thin...
This is the kind of book that I'm going to keep revisiting for new viewpoints and old stories. A welcome addition to my shelves, and I'd recommend this to anyone with a love for the introspective, the haunted, the strange, and the beautiful.
For the most part, it was great, with many thought provoking essays, for example, a palace built over a hellmouth in Spain, elf belief in Iceland, or the spirits of Colombo. However, there were two or three essays that rambled excessively and were more into clever use of language than being informative discussions of the topic. Had they not been in the book it would easily have been worth 5 stars. That said, they weren't terrible, and all were worth reading. Some were just a bit to "clever" for
Reading this is an interesting experience (particularly for me at first because when I picked it up I thought it was a short story collection, not an essay anthology). It's a loose collection of travel memoirs, history, and personal essays. Like any anthology there are highlights and filler, but on the whole it's well worth the read. Highlights include Warren Ellis, Silvia Moreno-Garcia's essay on Mexico City, and Maria Perez Cuervo's essay about a Spanish castle built over hell. I also learned
