Topographies:

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Topographies

• Interactions between the Public and the Private
• City Vision (3)

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Topographies Another overview of the city?

• Topography the art or practice of graphic
  delineation in detail usually on maps or charts
  of natural and man-made features/surfaces of a
  place or region especially in a way to show their
  relative positions and elevations
• Topographies Phillips interpretation of Nolli
  map and the interrelations among Jake, George and
  Phillip.

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Starting Questions

• Topographies as ways of showing the shifts and
  changes of relations, of entrance into different
  worlds.
• How are the three characters related to each
  other?
• Why is Phillip so interested in the map?
• What does Phillip strike out in his revision of
  his introduction to Nolli map?

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Jake and Phillip

• Jake's role in his relationship with Phillip
• used to be his student (young) p.4
• care-taker acupuncture p.3 concerned with
  Phillip's physical conditions (valve surgery)
  worried about his getting weaker, spending too
  much time on the map 6 the dream, 6 bruises 8
  
• feeling rejected
• Jake's love loves to sketch him still loves
  him after he stops looking at him for a month.

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Jake and Phillip the problems between them

• Age difference
• Phillip-- not let Jake see his body 8
• Phillips responses to Jakes youth hurt,
  envious, fatherly protective e.g. pp. 10-11
• Jakes responses p. 17, feeling disgusted
  sometimes.
• Memories keep Jake faithful to Phillip pp. 15,
  17
• It is beautiful, Ill give him that. p. 14

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George in relation to Phillip and Jake

• George, a lonely old man (p. 7), envious and
  contemptuous of Jakes youth.
• young, a pretty boy p. 5
• so young, so unsophisticated p. 16
• G. and Phillip needs Phillip's help in the
  Legislature Restoration bid. Being bossed around
  by P. (p. 9)
• In-between tries to speak for Jake p. 4 for
  Phillip 8
• Changes his views about Jake 13 his discussion
  with Jake, gives him an idea, but also antagonize
  him and Phillip 13

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Jakes life and choice

• refuses being fathered (The first nearly kills
  me.)
• mother going out on different dates.
• my dad was a construction worker
• his response to Phillips jealousy and Georges
  response p. 19 hauled off and deck (punch) him,
  or show that hes marked.

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Nolli map

• The studies of 18th century Rome by Giovanni
  Battista Nolli are an unique perspective
  revealing the intimate boundaries of public and
  private space within the city. The visual
  'footprint' is defined by not only streets and
  pathways, but also by lobbies, courts, and
  interior public spaces of buildings. (source
  Phillips account p. 18)

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Phillips interpretation of the map

• The city shown "for the first time as a
  coherent, living body" (3).
• reality beneath the map (5)
• traces of the past The Circus Maximus
• the city eternal renewal pp. 10-11
• The past vs. the present p. 8-9 we lack great
  monuments
• enter the city 12 14

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Phillips interpretation of the map
self-involvement

• the citys eternal renewal ? his immortality p.
  10
• his self-projections putto (pp. 5, 7)
• what he strikes out
• description/populist intention pp. 1-2.
• notes on the individuals p. 3
• what lies beneath the visible map // one's own
  body p. 5
• comparison to the present 5, (an emotional
  response) Another emotional response about
  discovering the city 14
• Reference to himself as a young student 9
• Reference to his own body 16

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Nolli map



source
12
The Circus Maximus

13
Putto p. 5
14
Putto p. 7