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Matthew William Ortile

Looking: Storytelling and Flânerie in the Arcades of Grindr

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2014-January-01
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It is through storytelling, Walter Benjamin believed, that wisdom and experience are shared, letting open narratives achieve an amplitude that information lacks. And Charles Baudelaire considered the window-shopping flâneur to be the observant ne plus ultra of urban modernity. By...

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