Research: Liminality - Richer Texts

• Where the City Meets the Wild Article  - Adrien Kinloch, 2013, A citizen's guide to  the future, slate/ new america/asu

 'once-visible industries have died and nature has crept back to colonise'

 'both beautiful and toxic'

'you might feel as though you are in the past and the future at the same time'

'most of them carry a sense of death, decay and desertion'

'feeling that you're standing on the threshold between present, past and future'

 'unsettling' - the posting of 'rituals' - warning?

• Interesting read, works well to back up my own experiences of liminality - Can apply general theories on liminality to this !!
• I.e. Sunset liminal concept of the ambiguity and the fear of the unknown that comes with Liminality - Illustrated by Kinlochs feeling of unease that comes with creepy abandoned objects/ rituals and not knowing how they got there

• La Shure, C. 2005. “What is Liminality?” http://www.liminality.org/about/whatisliminality/

Summary of the origins of liminality -roots in a ritual context - transitional period, Comes from limen - threshold (key), Turner applies: the state of an individual in modern society 

liminal individuals = polluting/ dangerous/ ‘realm of pure possibility’ ‘betwixt and between', A visible expression of anti - structure, temporarily fallen through the cracks, temporary state

Author Disagrees with T - if temporary state can’t be in it for ur whole life

• Material for introduction - integrate specific concepts - apply to space. Interesting idea: Hasn't left society just in the cracks - So true for space: Still a part of the cityscape just temporarily forgotten about