“Far from dotting the globe with fabulous islands, the naval powers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries remorselessly tracked down any and all such rumors and either confirmed or disproved them. As a result, the 1875 revised Admiralty Pacific… — Alastair Bonnett Copy Share Image
“Centralia, a mining town in Pennsylvania made uninhabitable by an underground fire that began in 1962 and is still burning today (the road into… — Alastair Bonnett Copy Share Image
“Far from dotting the globe with fabulous islands, the naval powers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries remorselessly tracked down any and all… — Alastair Bonnett Copy Share Image
“As a result, Hobyo is as good an example as any of a “feral city.” It’s a term that is used in military circles… — Alastair Bonnett Copy Share Image
“the replacement of unique and distinct places by generic blandscapes is severing us from something important.” — Alastair Bonnett Copy Share Image
“Most modern intellectuals and scientists have hardly any interest in place, for they consider their theories to be applicable everywhere.” — Alastair Bonnett Copy Share Image
“That morning I’d read that construction workers in London had discovered a young fox living off their leftover sandwiches on the unfinished seventy-second floor… — Alastair Bonnett Copy Share Image
“The rise of placelessness, on top of the sense that the whole planet is now minutely known and surveilled, has given this dissatisfaction a… — Alastair Bonnett Copy Share Image
