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Capital - New York, Capital of the 20th Century (Paperback)
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Capital - New York, Capital of the 20th Century (Paperback)
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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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