Iain Sinclair
Iain Sinclair
Iain Sinclair FRSLis a Welsh writer and filmmaker. Much of his work is rooted in London, most recently within the influences of psychogeography...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth11 June 1943
gradually people telling
If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.
future
To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.
dream sleep night
London is a city that sleeps too much. This is the mould of its quality. A magnetic contract: to reinvent itself on the other side of dream, each day. And such dreams, smouldering against the tidal spine of the river, telling and retelling the tales that must be told to manifest a city's bones. Whispering the night architecture back into stone.
disappears lose
If the landscape changes, then I don't know who I am either. The landscape is a refracted autobiography. As it disappears you lose your sense of self.
crumbling sync
I am crumbling in sync with old Hackney.