Capital e-bog
154,35 DKK
(inkl. moms 192,94 DKK)
Here is a kaleidoscopic assemblage and poetic history of New York: an unparalleled and original homage to the city, composed entirely of quotations. Drawn from a huge array of sources-histories, memoirs, newspaper articles, novels, government documents, emails-and organized into interpretive categories that reveal the philosophical architecture of the city, Capital is the ne plus ultra of books...
E-bog
154,35 DKK
Forlag
Verso
Udgivet
27 oktober 2015
Længde
928 sider
Genrer
1KBB-US-NAK
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781784781583
Here is a kaleidoscopic assemblage and poetic history of New York: an unparalleled and original homage to the city, composed entirely of quotations. Drawn from a huge array of sources-histories, memoirs, newspaper articles, novels, government documents, emails-and organized into interpretive categories that reveal the philosophical architecture of the city, Capital is the ne plus ultra of books on the ultimate megalopolis.It is also a book of experimental literature that transposes Walter Benjamin's unfinished magnum opus of literary montage on the modern city, The Arcades Project, from 19th-century Paris to 20th-century New York, bringing the streets to life in categories such as "e;Sex,"e; "e;Commodity,"e; "e;Downtown,"e; "e;Subway,"e; and "e;Mapplethorpe."e;Capital is a book designed to fascinate and to fail-for can a megalopolis truly be written? Can a history, no matter how extensive, ever be comprehensive? Each reading of this book, and of New York, is a unique and impossible passage.