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Pleasures of distraction

Pleasures of distraction. Jørgen Ole Bærenholdt and Connie Svabo Space, Place, Mobility and Urban Studies (MOSPUS) Research Unit & Centre for Experience Research (COF) Department of Environmental, Social and Spatial Change (ENSPAC ) Roskilde University (RUC )

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Pleasures of distraction

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  1. Pleasures of distraction Jørgen Ole Bærenholdt and Connie Svabo Space, Place, Mobility and Urban Studies (MOSPUS) Research Unit & Centre for Experience Research (COF) Department of Environmental, Social and Spatial Change (ENSPAC) Roskilde University (RUC) Draft paper for 4th Nordic Geographers’ Meeting, Roskilde University, 24-27.05.2011 ANT and tourism practices track

  2. Experiences of pleasure • Mediation • Multiplicity • Distraction • Focus on ‘the geographying agency’ of materialities, most notably how the mobile phone camera mediates a city, but also makes the point that a materiality does not ‘geography’ in any singular way; it works in multiplicities; it crafts multiple realities. And in the intersections between them, distraction is found.

  3. Mediation • To associate; to communicatebetweentwo parties • Inspired by Serres and Latour: simultaneousestablishing of a connection and the distortionwhichtakesplace in the connection • Materials, technologies, objectsmediatetouristexperiences

  4. Multiplicity • The state of beingmultiplexor manifold • Inspired by Serres, Latour, Mol & Law: there is not onesingularorder, but multiple emergentorders. (It is a goal for research to account for the multiplicity of the world) • Touristsengagewith sites in multiple ways • Materials, technologies, objectsmediateplaces in multiple ways

  5. Distraction • Distraction as the intersectionbetween multiple spaces and times • Emerges from the tensions between multiple orders of reality (absent – present) • Inspired by Hetherington(Capitalism’sEye), Benjamin (Passagen-Werk) • Modernist form of experience – Erlebnis – the pleasure of glancing at the world in distraction; actingthroughintersections of distance and proximity

  6. Conclusion • Inspired from the combination of ANT and Walter Benjamin to explore the flickering ’geographies’/worlds of experience (Erlebnis); the pleasure of letting things happen • mediation – multiplicity – distraction argument • Based in the strong narrative from ethnographical (also auto/semibiographical) and ’material/technological/virtual’ insight • Applicable to other examples; your own experiences ???

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