This sharp, witty study of a book never written, a sequel to Walter
Benjamin's Arcades Project, is dedicated to New York City, capital
of the twentieth century. A sui generis work of experimental
scholarship or fictional philosophy, it analyzes an imaginary
manuscript composed by a ghost. Part sprawling literary montage,
part fragmentary theory of modernity, part implosive manifesto on
the urban revolution, The Manhattan Project offers readers New York
as a landscape built of sheer life. It initiates them into a world
of secret affinities between photography and graffiti, pragmatism
and minimalism, Andy Warhol and Robert Moses, Hannah Arendt and
Jane Jacobs, the flâneur and the homeless person, the collector
and the hoarder, the glass-covered arcade and the bare, concrete
street. These and many other threads can all be spooled back into
one realization: for far too long, we have busied ourselves with
thinking about ways to change the city; it is about time we let the
city change the way we think.
General
| Imprint: |
Stanford University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
March 2015 |
| First published: |
2015 |
| Authors: |
David Kishik
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth
|
| Pages: |
288 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8047-8603-4 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-8047-8603-8 |
| Barcode: |
9780804786034 |
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