Talk:Iain Sinclair

message: I wish to preface these comments by stating that I love Sinclair's writing and find him one of the very few writers whose work is compulsory.  However, I am more than a little exasperated by what I see the inveterate snobbery of the recent non-fiction works, London Orbital and Edge of the Orison.  What is entirely absent from the M25 book is any consideration of why normal, sensible people might want to use the motorway.  The whole thing becomes an extended rant against the people who designed and built the M25, with no recognition given to the simple fact that people use it to get from A to B.
In the Clare book, this tendency is even more pronounced.  He refers to the "swinish roar" of the motorcar, as though the very act of driving is somehow abhorrent.  He describes salesmen resting by the side of the road in their "repmobiles", making cheap jibes at their shiny suits.  For god's sake, they're only trying to earn a living!  And, once again, there is no room in Sinclair's thinking for people who might want to drive to visit loved ones, for example.
I seem to be focusing on Sinclair's evident anti-car bias in these comments, but I think his snobbery runs deeper than this.  Any other views?  --Richardrj 10:39, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  This is typical of cultural snobs who call themselves psychogeographers, as if walking is a somehow radical activity! 62.25.106.209 14:11, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Sinclair's snobbery

message: Whether people like his books or not, an encyclopaedia article should be accurate.
Does Douglas Oliver turn up as a "fictionalized" character in Sinclair's work?  Downriver, or one of the novels anyway, includes a letter by Oliver - but that's not the same as fictionalizing Catling as Joblard, Prynne as Undark, and so on.  Maybe he's in there somewhere and I missed him.
Sinclair is not "recuperating" Stewart Home's work.  He is older and has been doing this material longer than Home.  The other way around, if anything.  And it is inappropriate to describe Home as a pscyhogeographer - that has been a minor part of his activity (see his Wikipedia entry).  Sinclair has worked much more in this field, but this makes him sound like the younger writer's disciple.
:::Note, I have made a change to dispel the idea that Sinclair is recuperating Home's work.  KD Jan 07
I have corrected the spelling of Allen Ginsberg.
The body of the text should mention Lights Out for The Territory, which is by far his most popular book, and relate it to the Whitechapel novels.  I'll insert a sentence to start that off.  KD —The preceding unsigned comment was added by KD Tries Again (talk • contribs) 15:51, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Errors, omissions, etc 

message: Of all his many books, why would London Orbital require a separate section?  I've moved it into the Psychogeography section, and tried to sort that section into chronological order.KD Tries Again (talk) 17:10, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
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