Obsessions with the past are, after all, not limited to traumatic events and their often symptomatic and pathological effects. As critics of the culture industry will argue, any past can be used, commodified, distorted, marketed, reworked, displaced, indi...
Las grandes revueltas históricas de 1989, exactamente dos siglos después de la toma de la Bastilla, nos han dejado con pocas proyecciones para el futuro. Ni la victoria occidental en la Guerra Fría ni la unificación alemana...
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Europeâs modernizing metropolises offered a sensory experience unlike anything that had come before. Cities became laboratories bubbling with aesthetic experimentation in old and new...
Other Cities, Other Worlds brings together leading scholars of cultural theory, urban studies, art, anthropology, literature, film, architecture, and history to look at non-Western global cities. The contributors focus on urban imaginaries, the ways that...
Memory of historical trauma has a unique power to generate works of art. This book analyzes the relation of public memory to history, forgetting, and selective memory in Berlin, Buenos Aires, and New YorkÂthree late-twentieth-century cities...