Capital
By: [compiled by] Kenneth Goldsmith
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 913
ISBN-13: 9781784781569; 9781784781576
Subjects: English Quotations; Quotations; Quotations, maxims
Other titles: Capital :; New York :; Capital of the 20th century; Capital of the twentieth century
Description: "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." -- Publisher's description
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.