« London Calling » — appellation en devenir (P. Ackroyd, Gilbert & George, I. Sinclair)

Abstract

This paper shows how the experience of London questions the act of naming thus questioning the epistemological frame meant to capture it. Mislead by the protean space, the authors rethink the Modernist heritage of the London imaginrary in order to adjust its biography, cartography to a city that resists representation. Eventually London’s geographical fictional space tends to any possibility at mapping it.

Keywords

• cognitive mapping
• empiricism
• London
• memory
• naming
• psychogeography