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The Vanishing Map - A Journey from LA to Tokyo to the Heart of Europe (Hardcover, Illustrated Ed)
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The Vanishing Map - A Journey from LA to Tokyo to the Heart of Europe (Hardcover, Illustrated Ed)
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Stephen Barber takes the reader on an extraordinary journey from LA
to Tokyo via Europe. He carries only a crumpled map in his pocket,
a map which plots a horrifying past, a disappearing present and a
future collapsing into banality. A virtual reality flight across
this territory reveals the surfaces of things, a landscape made by
war and technological advances. Coming back to earth and to his own
body, Stephen Barber follows the map from city to city. He
discovers how cities, once densely layered with a civilization's
history of follies and obsessions, are increasingly oblivious
places, accelerating the erasure of their own histories, forgetting
themselves. Barber's journey becomes a profound meditation on the
future of the city and the role of memory in our lives.Dazzlingly
written, erudite, and by turns funny, elegiac and horrific, The
Vanishing Map explores what cities were, are and will be. Deeper
than this, it questions how memory - personal, urban, national and
global memory - can survive.
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