The dream is taking place right now: inputs for a search mapping

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Santiago Gómez Sánchez from TRYMEXICO published an article in the journal Humanities, Arts and Society. It’s called « The dream is taking place right now » and according to the author, it is a kind of essay that seeks to analyze Jack Kerouac’s novel Tristessa, the way it conceptualizes Mexico City, and how the reflections around it can serve as inputs to carry out a cartography based on the search. This article was written in relation to the Un mapa propio project

You can read it here in english and here in French.

« The city is a gray, all-eating monster when you walk out of the subway into a neighborhood you don’t know. What do you look for there? A familiar face or gesture? What do you search for when the city is a mundane teddy bear (the one from your childhood, maybe) and you’re bored of its soft gaze? »