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 years. What about the expanding family syndrome, the school-lottery migration, the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination? Iain Sinclair dysfunctionalexpandfamily share on social
I am crumbling in sync with old Hackney. Iain Sinclair crumblehackneysync Change image and share on social
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 never like that, is it? Once you get there, for economic reasons you have to generate the next project - so you're immediately starting to dig up something else, and so it goes on. Iain Sinclair citydifficultdig share on social
To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity. Iain Sinclair absurdityfixfuture Change image and share on social
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. Iain Sinclair changehappenrespectful Change image and share on social
Hackney at certain epochs has given itself suburban airs and graces, before being slapped down and consigned once more to the dump bin of aborted ambition. Iain Sinclair abortairambition Change image and share on social