Abstract
The modern indie magazine Flaneur: Fragments of a Street, an English-language periodical published in Germany from 2013 onwards and distributed worldwide, examines a single street of a foreign city in each issue via a creative compilation of various visual and visceral materials in order to construct multimedia fragments into a cosmopolitan collage. Owing to its incorporation of sensate components, its focus on transnational networks, and its evocation of the figure of the nineteenth-century flâneur in order to bring urban environments to life for its widely dispersed readership, Flaneur offers a focal point in the diverse expanse of contemporary independent magazine publications. In order to capture the kaleidoscopic nature of modern life, the publication creates an amalgamation of poetic text, unusual layout, visual input, and haptic interaction within its printed pages. As a result, the interaction between mosaic content and multilayered flexibility within this modern, German magazine functions as the driving force in Flaneur’s goal to both build imagined communities across borders and establish an embodied, emotional reading experience.
Highlights
How do you capture the experience of strolling through the streets of a foreign city? How do you portray the cacophony of voices and traffic, the multicoloured hues of buildings, the energy and flux of living alongside hundreds of strangers? Preserving the collage of city life on paper is at the heart of the modern independent magazine Flaneur: Fragments of a Street
Sparks a celebration of variety while reflecting the difficult yet compelling search for coherence amid the barely tamed chaos of the city. As displayed by this detailed look at Flaneur: Fragments of a Street, modern independent magazines utilize the unification of differences as the cornerstone of their identity
Throughout its print run, the content-rich magazine has assembled a cosmopolitan collage of seemingly spontaneous sights, snippets of sounds, snapshots of feeling, and fragments of sensation into provocative and unique patterns that distill the essence of diverse cityscapes
Summary
To cite this article: Natasha Anderson, ‘Strolling the Streets to Discover the Cities: Cosmopolitan Collage in the Independent Magazine Flaneur’, Journal of European Periodical Studies, 5.2 (Winter 2020), 31–45
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