Author: Raphael Kabo

Raphael Kabo is a postgraduate student, performance poet, and writer. He completed his undergraduate degree at the Australian National University and is about to embark on an MA in English Literature at King's College London with the support of a King's President's Scholarship. His work examines the relationships between contemporary subversive literature, spatiality, psychogeography, and urban existence, with a particular interest in the spatialities of contemporary protest literature from the UK and beyond.

Issue 5.2 Previous Issues

Responding to the Chance of Space in Marshland

Doreen Massey, writing in her visionary book For Space, sets out a rallying cry for the building of interrelationships in the spaces of the contemporary world: ‘In this other spatiality, different temporalities and different voices must work out means of accommodation. The chance of space must be responded to’. In…

Issue 4.3 Previous Issues

Towards a Taxonomy of Edgelands Literature

Raphael Kabo June 26, 2015 No Comments Arcade Fire contemporary culture contemporary literature Edgelands Gareth E. Rees genre study geocriticism Ian Sinclair Karl Hyde Laura Oldfield Ford liminality literary geocriticism London Olympics Lorde Nick Papadimitriou Patrick Keiller spatiality Susan Sontag taxonomy

Susan Sontag, in her 1969 work Styles of Radical Will, claimed that ‘there is no such thing as empty space. As long as a human eye is looking there is always something to see’ (10) – foreseeing with the simplicity of her statement a watershed moment in literary and cultural criticism, the spatial turn, the effects of which are still being comprehended and incorporated into the …