Could the vitality of embodied experience create a foundation for a
new form of revolutionary authority? The Life of the City is a bold
and innovative reassessment of the early urban avant-garde
movements that sought to re-imagine and reinvent the experiential
life of the city. Constructing a ground-breaking theoretical
analysis of the relationships between biological life, urban
culture, and modern forms of biopolitical 'experiential authority',
Julian Brigstocke traces the failed attempts of Parisian radicals
to turn the 'crisis of authority' in late nineteenth-century Paris
into an opportunity to invent new forms of urban commons. The most
comprehensive account to date of the spatial politics of the
literary, artistic and anarchist groups that settled in the
Montmartre area of Paris after the suppression of the 1871 Paris
Commune, The Life of the City analyses the reasons why laughter
emerged as the unlikely tool through which Parisian bohemians
attempted to forge a new, non-representational biopolitics of
sensation. Ranging from the carnivalesque performances of artistic
cabarets such as the Chat Noir to the laughing violence of
anarchist terrorism, The Life of the City is a timely analysis of
the birth of a carnivalesque politics that remains highly
influential in contemporary urban movements.
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