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Capital
- New York, Capital of the 20th Century
Engelsk Paperback
Capital
- New York, Capital of the 20th Century
Engelsk Paperback

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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, <i>Capital</i> is the ne plus ultra of books on the ultimate megalopolis.<br><br>It is also a book of experimental literature that transposes Walter Benjamin’s unfinished magnum opus of literary montage on the modern city, <i>The Arcades Project</i>, from 19th-century Paris to 20th-century New York, bringing the streets to life in categories such as "Sex," "Commodity," "Downtown," "Subway," and "Mapplethorpe."<br><br><i>Capital</i> 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.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
928
ISBN-13:
9781784781590
Indbinding:
Paperback
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ISBN-10:
1784781592
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Udg. Dato:
31 maj 2016
Længde:
51mm
Bredde:
251mm
Højde:
180mm
Forlag:
Verso Books
Oplagsdato:
31 maj 2016
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