Iain Sinclair FRSL (born 11 June 1943) is a British writer and filmmaker. Much of his work is rooted in London, most recently within the influences of psychogeography. Read full biography of Iain Sinclair →
With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40... →
The world changes, but I want that change to be necessary or respectful of what has happened before. Everything changes, and that's quite right.
The negotiation of city space has been made more difficult with the idea that redevelopment is an improvement for some vague future - but it's... →
You can't impose a legacy.
I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always... →
An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.
There is an obvious connection, on the declining Roman empire's bread and circuses model, between political enthusiasm for public spectacles and... →
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... →
If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.
The kind of world I'm endlessly going on about is pretty well doomed, but nevertheless I think there are recesses of it worth celebrating.
To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.
I am crumbling in sync with old Hackney.
The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.
Iain Sinclair FRSL (born 11 June 1943) is a British writer and filmmaker. Much of his work is rooted in London, most recently within the influences of psychogeography.