Paris-Amsterdam Underground : Essays on Cultural Resistance, Subversion, and Diversion.

Intro -- Paris-Amsterdam Underground -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- 1. Concepts and Practices of the Underground -- Paris-Amsterdam -- Hipsters and Counterculture -- Urban War Games -- Projections, Mobility, Visibility -- Future City -- Part 1: Projections -- 2. Metromania or the Undersides of Painting -- The Underneath of Paris -- The Undersides of Painting -- Underground and Avant-Garde -- 3. Mapping Utopia: Debord and Constant between Amsterdam and Paris -- 4. Amsterdam's Sexual Underground in the 1960s -- A sleepy town turns into a sex capital -- From the 1950s on -- Male Youth Cultures: Nozems and Provos -- Sexual Movements -- Mediatization -- Nude Shows -- The Dogmatic Turn -- Rise and Fall of the Sexual Revolution -- Afterword -- Note -- Part 2: Mobility -- 5. Detours, Delays, Derailments: La Petite Jérusalem and Slow Training in Culture -- Culture as travel -- Detours as Delays -- Destination as Detour -- Some Terminal Points -- 6. Underground Visions: Strategies of Resistance along the Amsterdam Metro Lines -- Introduction -- History, Part 1: The Origins of the Amsterdam Metro -- History, Part 2: The Nieuwmarkt -- Protests and Activism in Nieuwmarkt -- Memorials in the Metro: Greetings from the Nieuwmarkt -- The Film -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 7. Underground Circulation: The Beats in Paris and Beyond -- The Beats in Paris -- Beat Circulation -- Theorizing the Underground -- Possibilities for the Underground Today -- Note -- Part 3: Visibility -- 8. (In)audible Frequencies: Sounding out the Contemporary Branded City -- The City as Brand: City-Marketing and the Creative City -- Enchantment and Consumption within the Night-time Cityscape -- Sonic Variations, Inaudible Interventions -- 9. Red Lights and Legitimate Trade: Paying for Sex in the Branded City -- Introduction -- Historical Notes: Painting and Prostitution.

Re-Writing Heritage, Re-Branding the City -- Artists, Pimps, and Whores -- Conclusion -- 10. Visibly Underground: When Clandestine Workers Take the Law into Their Own Hands -- 'N'entre pas sans violence dans la nuit' - 'Show Your Cards' -- 11. Archaeology of the Parisian Underground -- Introduction: Digging in the Underground -- From Souterrain to Underground: A Brief Archaeology -- A Guide through the Paris Underground -- Mapping the Underground -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Illustrations -- Contributors -- Index.

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