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New York, Capital of the 20th Century
出版Verso Books, 2015-10-27
主題Art / Individual Artists / Artists' BooksReference / QuotationsArt / ConceptualPoetry / GeneralSocial Science / Sociology / Urban
ISBN17847815849781784781583
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=fG3nDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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 "Sex," "Commodity," "Downtown," "Subway," and "Mapplethorpe."

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.