Capital : New York, Capital of the 20th Century EPUB
by Kenneth Goldsmith
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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, 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.
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:928 pages
- Publisher:Verso
- Publication Date:27/10/2015
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- ISBN:9781784781583
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Pages:928 pages
- Publisher:Verso
- Publication Date:27/10/2015
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- ISBN:9781784781583