{"id":594,"date":"2008-11-28T02:15:27","date_gmt":"2008-11-28T01:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/?p=594"},"modified":"2009-09-18T12:05:40","modified_gmt":"2009-09-18T11:05:40","slug":"marseille-mix-dangerous-liaisons-by-william-firebrace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/?p=594","title":{"rendered":"Marseille Mix &#8211; dangerous liaisons by William Firebrace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/marseille-mix3_liaisons_cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-595\" title=\"marseille-mix3_liaisons_cover\" src=\"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/marseille-mix3_liaisons_cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"121\" height=\"170\" \/> <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/wfirebrace_mm3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-631\" title=\"wfirebrace_mm3\" src=\"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/wfirebrace_mm3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Download<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/ebooks\/marseille-mix3_liaisons_A4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">A4<\/a> |\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/ebooks\/marseille-mix3_liaisons_US.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">US Letter<\/a> PDF 376Kb<br \/>\n<strong>StoryCube<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/storycubes\/WFirebrace_MM3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">A4 only<\/a> PDF 752Kb<\/p>\n<p><strong>About<\/strong> : <em>dangerous liaisons<\/em> \u2013 some short and seedy criminal narratives.\u00a0Third in a series of 6 eBooks and StoryCubes published weekly, feuilleton style.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marseille Mix<\/strong><br \/>\nMy first encounters with Marseille were in the cinema, in films such as\u00a0<em>The French Connection<\/em>,\u00a0<em>La Ville est Tranquille<\/em> and\u00a0<em>Taxi<\/em>. It seemed a strange place, dangerous, not conventionally beautiful, down at heel, but somehow attractive. I decided on the basis of this cinematic introduction that this was the city I wished to write about &#8211; exactly because it did not coincide in any way with what I considered to be a city, because of its defiance.<\/p>\n<p>Marseille is an irreconcilable mix \u2013 of different cultures, different societies, different ideas about the planning, different images, different gastronomies. It evokes fantasy as much as objectivity. As a city it inspires dislike and fear but also pride and love.<\/p>\n<p>It is not possible to investigate this city in a linear, coherent fashion, since the city is in no way linear or coherent.<\/p>\n<p><em>Marseille Mix<\/em> contains various methods of writing \u2013 narrative, essay, recipe, lists, conversations, chance remarks, and others. Sometimes it flows easily enough, sometimes it accepts the need for contradiction, disruption, lack of resolution. Of course the book is not really exactly like the city &#8211; it is a personal investigation, with its own points of view.<\/p>\n<p>Published November 2008\u00a0in the Diffusion\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/?cat=191\" target=\"_blank\">Transformations<\/a> Series<\/p>\n<p><strong>William Firebrace<\/strong> is an architect, and teaches in various London schools of architecture. He has published one book,\u00a0<em>Things Worth Seeing<\/em> (Black Dog 2001), has completed a second,\u00a0<em>Awake<\/em>, and is now finishing a third,\u00a0<em>Marseille Mix<\/em>, which should appear in 2009.<br \/>\n<a href=\"www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk\/architecture\/programmes\/units\/unit02.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Unit 2, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download A4 |\u00a0US Letter PDF 376Kb StoryCube A4 only PDF 752Kb About : dangerous liaisons \u2013 some short and seedy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,191],"tags":[204,421,203,332],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebooks","category-storycubes","category-transformations","tag-criminals","tag-marseille","tag-urbanism","tag-william-firebrace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1391,"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions\/1391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}