A list of city names is enough to evoke the wonder of travel. “Trieste, Zurich, Paris.”—the closing line of James Joyce’s classic Ulysses—provides, as Alain de Botton writes, a record of the book’s production and the cosmopolitanism it grew out of. “Cairo, Bombay, Shanghai” traces other passages, trade routes perhaps or the wandering imagination of oriental fantasies similar to those that run through “Rome, Jerusalem, Mecca.” Thus listed, cities act like nodes along longer lines of travel. While some networks forge the outlines of territory, others trace less grounded modes of connection. The itineraries of travel, scribbled on parchment, etched in stone, or uploaded online, simply serve to recall journeys between places and the connections made and then subsumed within them...
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Routes: Losing My Religion in Oaxaca, Andrew Shanken; Water’s Pilgrimage in Rome, Katherine Rinne with illustrations by Rebecca Sunter; De Vieux-Montréal à Kahnawa:ké, Sara Terreault & Matthew Anderson; From the Fields to the City Gates, Martin Locker; GeoGuessr’s Digital Pilgrimages, Marta Figlerowicz; City of One Thousand Temples, Emma Natalya Stein; Diary of a Failed Pilgrim June 2014, Beverly Crawford.
Temporary Urbanism: Temporary Flows & Ephemeral Cities, Felipe Vera & Rahul Mehrotra; A Fistful of Barley, John Soriano; Sites of Representation, Kimberly Richards; Urban Place Making/Performing Rural Memories, Annie Malcolm with illustrations by Lauren Matthews; Kingship, Buddhism and the Forging of a Region, Jason Hawkes; Blacksmith Caravans on the Move, Sachin Bandukwala and Melissa Smith; Concrete’s Many Fair-Faces, Sarah Briggs Ramsey.
The Traveled Voice: In Demonstration, Lyn Hejinian; The Rhetoric of Return, Ragini Srinivasan; Journey to Juazeiro, Candace Slater; Art, Cinema, and Life Outside the Imperial Ring, Megan Hoetger; Nearing Nanjing, 1938, Evelyn Shih; Ziyaretler, Angela Andersen; Review of Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, Tiffany Hong; Dense Ecologies / City and Bay, Nicholas de Monchaux et al.