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Catttt Posted 10 years ago
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Is the highlighted sentence describing "the flaneur" or "situationist practices"? I am almost certain the former. Am I right?

As against the prototypical, immersed-but-detached, man-of-the-crowd figure of the flaneur, revived in the early twentieth century by Walter Benjamin and still experiencing repeated resurrection – as well as critical censure – in reconceived form by the century’s end, situationist practices were precisely ‘a negation of the city as a site which invites the subject to remain detached from the object of its gaze
  

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It refers to the noun phrase. The head word is figure . the prototypical, immersed-but-detached, man-of-the-crowd figure of the flaneur,

  • It refers to the noun phrase.
  • The head word is figure .
  • the prototypical, immersed-but-detached, man-of-the-crowd figure of the flaneur,
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It refers to the noun phrase. The head word is figure.
the prototypical, immersed-but-detached, man-of-the-crowd figure of the flaneur,

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