{"id":2479,"date":"2014-11-01T09:28:59","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T16:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2479"},"modified":"2014-11-01T09:28:59","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T16:28:59","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s4e65-unerotic-city-with-mark-kingwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2479","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S4E65: Unerotic City with Mark Kingwell"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"x`\"At the University of Toronto, Colin Marshall talks with Mark Kingwell<\/a>, professor of philosophy and author of such books as\u00a0A Civil Tongue: Justice, Dialogue, and the Politics of Pluralism<\/em>,\u00a0The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age<\/i>,\u00a0<\/em>Concrete Reveries: Consciousness and the<\/em> City, and most recently the collection\u00a0Unruly Voices:\u00a0Essays on Democracy, Civility and the Human Imagination<\/i><\/em>. They discuss how the “ongoing argument” that is Canada manifests in Toronto; the University of Toronto’s thorough integration into the city itself; why outsiders think of Toronto as a kind of idea of the city made concrete; the many parallels between Toronto and Los Angeles, including the derision both cities draw; a “walking city” as a city where you can walk not just in but between places; where the Torontonian’s perception of distance doesn’t quite match the geography, as in the crossing of the Don Valley; what got him thinking about the city as a problem of consciousness; the “great stumbling block” of the “world class” designation, which probably means nothing; how to use philosophy and cities as nexuses of subjects, and the benefits of dispensing “mind candy” like Simpsons\u00a0<\/i>references in the process; public spaces from the impossible-in-this-century Central Park to the counterintuitively functional Nathan Phillips Square; the Toronto sub-industry of assigning grand names to alleys; quasi-public private space, and how the nicer you dress, the more of it you find; America’s legal piety versus its misbehavior; Canada’s respect for authority versus its explosions of passive-aggression; what you don’t see when you walk through Toronto, such as any element of the erotic; this city as “a whole bunch of silver medals that add up to a pretty nice tally”; the distinction between politeness (which he doesn’t actually find among Canadians) and civility; why Torontonians think Rob Ford became mayor; whether a city needs a center, and whether that center must be a public space or a monument of some kind; what it means that the CN Tower represents Toronto; and whether Toronto will keep playing its role as the “real archetypal city.”<\/p>\n

Download the interview\u00a0<\/span>here as an MP3<\/a>\u00a0or on\u00a0<\/span>iTunes<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the University of Toronto, Colin Marshall talks with Mark Kingwell, professor of philosophy and author of such books as\u00a0A Civil Tongue: Justice, Dialogue, and the Politics of Pluralism,\u00a0The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age,\u00a0Concrete Reveries: Consciousness and the City, and most recently the collection\u00a0Unruly Voices:\u00a0Essays on Democracy, Civility and the Human […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notebook-on-cities-and-culture","category-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2481,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479\/revisions\/2481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}