{"id":69,"date":"2020-03-24T02:20:17","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T02:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/?p=69"},"modified":"2020-03-24T02:29:16","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T02:29:16","slug":"stefano-bloch-on-henri-lefebvre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/2020\/03\/24\/stefano-bloch-on-henri-lefebvre\/","title":{"rendered":"Stefano Bloch on Henri Lefebvre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode we are joined by <a href=\"https:\/\/las.arizona.edu\/people\/stefano-bloch\">Stefano Bloch<\/a>, Assistant Professor in the School of Geography &amp; Development at the University of Arizona and author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goingallcity.com\"><em>Going All City: Struggle and Survival in LA&#8217;s Graffiti Subculture.<\/em><\/a> \u00a0Stefano reflects on his initial encounters with the writings of Henri Lefebvre as an undergraduate literature major and discusses how Lefebvre\u2019s ideas have served as a foundation to all of his scholarly research and teaching since. Stefano also provides useful advice for how we need to approach theory as ideas and tools to be applied rather than eternal truths.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is as if the pages came alive. Everything that I had thought was drowning in jargon and overly convoluted&#8230; all of sudden started to make sense to me because I was hanging each of those words on this view of the world that I had already held inside me, which was the perspective of the world and the built environment as a graffiti writer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/files\/2020\/01\/GTAC-flattened.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-34\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/files\/2020\/01\/GTAC-flattened-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/files\/2020\/01\/GTAC-flattened-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/files\/2020\/01\/GTAC-flattened-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/files\/2020\/01\/GTAC-flattened-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/files\/2020\/01\/GTAC-flattened-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/files\/2020\/01\/GTAC-flattened-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/files\/2020\/01\/GTAC-flattened-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7900\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-69-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/files.thesocietypages.org\/downloads\/GTaC10_Bloch_on_Lefebvre.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/files.thesocietypages.org\/downloads\/GTaC10_Bloch_on_Lefebvre.mp3\">http:\/\/files.thesocietypages.org\/downloads\/GTaC10_Bloch_on_Lefebvre.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/files.thesocietypages.org\/downloads\/GTaC10_Bloch_on_Lefebvre.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/?powerpress_pinw=69-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/files.thesocietypages.org\/downloads\/GTaC10_Bloch_on_Lefebvre.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"GTaC10_Bloch_on_Lefebvre.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode we are joined by Stefano Bloch, Assistant Professor in the School of Geography &amp; Development at the University of Arizona and author of Going All City: Struggle and Survival in LA&#8217;s Graffiti Subculture. \u00a0Stefano reflects on his initial encounters with the writings of Henri Lefebvre as an undergraduate literature major and discusses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":971,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"theorist":[126437],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","theorist-henri-lefebvre"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/971"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"theorist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/theorist?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}