Geography Reference
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27. Oxford Street in the 1920s: the basic form, or morphology, of this
famous London street is clear and reasonably constant, but the people
and signs of technology indicate another age
belief that the solution to preventing the crisis over the loss of
a future may be found in the past. The time traveller fails in his
search for Peters and the mission is unfulfi lled: The City of the
Future concludes that the world from which we want to escape is
that in which we are most involved and the mission to de-create
or reconstruct the real or what actually happened is doomed to
failure.
The fi lm explores the intentionality of the fi lm-maker and his
view of the world. It engages with critical theory as it explores
the pervading infl uence of romanticism. The defi ning quality of
romanticism is seen as its assertion that being should yield itself to
meaning . Yet the error of Romanticism is its belief that the human
subject can form its own identity when in fact it is formed by the
Other (or those who observe his or her activities). The subject
cannot dominate the gaze of the Other ; it is subservient to that
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