Lines of flight: everyday resistance along England’s backbone.

Wood, Martin; Brown, Sally

Abstract

A line of flight is essentially a movement of creativity, a practical act or a way of living that wards off or inhibits the formation of ‘centres’ and stable powers in favour of continuous variation and free action. This article supports the arts-based practice of a documentary film, Lines of Flight, which uses free solo rock climbing in the Pennine region of northern England, to give access to a range of ‘intensely lived experiences’ that can offer a route out of the social, economic and cultural conditions that often subjugate modern society and back to life in its free and wild state. The documentary becomes a presentational line of flight in itself, as it looks to find the conditions for a novel experience in the making, under which a new filmic affect is produced in the here and the now.

Citation

Wood, M., & Brown, S. (2011). Lines of flight: everyday resistance along England’s backbone. Organization, 18, 517-540. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508410387961

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jan 7, 2011
• Deposit Date: Apr 22, 2016
• Print ISSN: 1350-5084
• Electronic ISSN: 1461-7323
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 18
• Pages: 517-540
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508410387961
• Keywords: Aesthetics; arts-based practice; documentary film; line of flight; modernity and postmodernity; power and resistance; rock climbing
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/9904
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1350508410387961