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Lineages of the Global City
- Occult Modernism and the Spiritualization of Democracy
Engelsk Hardback
Lineages of the Global City
- Occult Modernism and the Spiritualization of Democracy
Engelsk Hardback

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The forgotten history of the occult foundations of the early twentieth-century global city. War, revolution, genocide, rebellion, slump. The economic and political turmoil of the early twentieth century seemed destined to rip asunder the ties that bound colonizers and the colonized to one another. The upheaval represented an opportunity, and not just to nationalists who imagined new homelands or to socialists who dreamed of international brotherhood. For modernists in the orbit of various occultisms, the crisis of empire also represented an opportunity to reveal humanity’s fundamental unity and common fate. Lineages of the Global City recounts a continuous, if also contentious, transnational exchange among modernists and occultists across the Americas, Europe, South Asia, and Australia between 1905 and 1949. At stake were the feelings and affect of a new global subject who would perceive themselves as belonging to humanity as a unified whole, and the urban environment that would foster their subjectivity. The interventions in this debate, which drew in the period’s most renowned modernists, took the form of a succession of plans for cities, suburbs, and communes, as well as experiments in building, drawing, printmaking, filmmaking, and writing. Weaving together postcolonial, feminist, and Marxist insight on subject formation, Shiben Banerji advances a new way of understanding modernist urban space as the design of subjective effects.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
336
ISBN-13:
9781477331408
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1477331409
Udg. Dato:
8 jul 2025
Længde:
36mm
Bredde:
178mm
Højde:
254mm
Forlag:
University of Texas Press
Oplagsdato:
8 jul 2025
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