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The Architecture of Phantasmagoria - Specters of the City (Hardcover)
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The Architecture of Phantasmagoria - Specters of the City (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
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In a time of mass-mediated modernity, the city becomes, almost by
definition, a constitutively 'mediated' city. Today, more than ever
before, the omnipresence of media in every sphere of culture is
creating a new urban ontology, saturating, fracturing, and
exacerbating the manifold experience of city life. The authors
describe this condition as one of 'hyper-mediation' - a
qualitatively new phase in the city's historical evolution. The
concept of phantasmagoria has pride of place in their study; using
it as an all-embracing explanatory framework, they explore its
meanings as a critical category to understand the culture, and the
architecture, of the contemporary city. Andreotti and Lahiji argue
that any account of architecture that does not include
understanding the role and function of media and its impact on the
city in the present 'tele-technological-capitalist' society is
fundamentally flawed and incomplete. Their approach moves from
Walter Benjamin, through the concepts of phantasmagoria and of
media - as theorized also by Theodor Adorno, Siegfried Kracauer,
and a new generation of contemporary critics - towards a new
socio-critical and aesthetic analysis of the mediated space of the
contemporary city.
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