From my continuing coverage of the “underground”: Tunnel Vision: Using Sociological Radar to Snare a Seat — everyday applications of ethnic savvy in subway hand-to-hand combat. Next, the extraordinary portrait of the impostor subway motorman, a favorite of the Spike Report. New York Times And online and underground: “Thanks to the Web, the sport of
infiltration — creeping through
abandoned buildings and unused
subway tunnels — is thriving as
never before.” Salon This article points to the entertaining Infiltration site, “the zine about going places you’re not supposed to go”: utility and subway tunnels, drains and catacombs, abandoned buildings and other edifices and institutions. Here‘s a list of the sites in the Urban Exploration webring. “We don’t break locks or
bolts or climb over fences; what we’re really overcoming is
imaginary barriers that are just understood but barely
questioned.” And this, from Salon as well, on Subway Love: “With much of its crime and grime
wiped clean, or at least swept into the corners, the subway has
become a blank slate for our sexual fantasies. It has become a
place for flirtation, self-invention, play.”