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The Life of the City
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Artikel-Nr:
9781409448969
Veröffentl:
2014
Erscheinungsdatum:
09.07.2014
Seiten:
246
Autor:
Julian Brigstocke
Gewicht:
526 g
Format:
234x156x16 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Dr Julian Brigstocke is Lecturer in Human Geography at the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Plymouth University, UK.
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.
Contents: Preface; Introduction: art, life, and the experience of modernity. Part I The Life of the City: Anomalous and inhuman: black cats and the experience of truth in Baudelaire, Manet and Poe; Order and progress: crises of authority and the pursuit of experience in the early Third Republic; Upsetting the festival of life: humour and the politics of ressentiment. Part II The Chat Noir: Defiant laughter: humour and the aesthetics of place; Counter-display and the exhibition of error; The silent horror of the night: supernatural landscapes and the life of the senses. Part III Anarchism, Humour and Violence: Kings of derision: anarchist laughter and the aesthetics of violence; Conclusion: literature, performance, and the aesthetics of authority. References; Index.