Capital (eBook)

New York, Capital of the 20th Century

Kenneth Goldsmith (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015 | Ebook UK & RoW
928 Seiten
Verso (Verlag)
978-1-78478-158-3 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.10.2015
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 1-78478-158-4 / 1784781584
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78478-158-3 / 9781784781583