Excavating The Future
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City Of Quartz
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Author : Mike Davis
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2006-09-17
City Of Quartz written by Mike Davis and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09-17 with Social Science categories.
This new edition of the visionary social history of Los Angeles is “as central to the L.A. canon as anything that . . . Joan Didion wrote in the seventies” (New Yorker) No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, “Los Angeles brings it all together.” To detractors, L.A. is a sunlit mortuary where “you can rot without feeling it.” To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide- ranging work of social history, Los Angeles is both utopia and dystopia, a place where the last Joshua trees are being plowed under to make room for model communities in the desert, where the rich have hired their own police to fend off street gangs, as well as armed Beirut militias. In City of Quartz, Davis reconstructs L.A.’s shadow history and dissects its ethereal economy. He tells us who has the power and how they hold on to it. He gives us a city of Dickensian extremes, Pynchonesque conspiracies, and a desperation straight out of Nathaniel West—a city in which we may glimpse our own future mirrored with terrifying clarity. In this new edition, Davis provides a dazzling update on the city’s current status.
City Of Quartz
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Author : Mike Davis
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 1998
City Of Quartz written by Mike Davis and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Cities and towns categories.
Recounts the story of Los Angeles. He tells a tale of greed, manipulation, power and prejudice that has made Los Angeles one of the most cosmopolitan and most class-divided cities in the United States.
Naoya Hatakeyama
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Author : Naoya Hatakeyama
language : en
Publisher: Aperture Foundation
Release Date : 2018
Naoya Hatakeyama written by Naoya Hatakeyama and has been published by Aperture Foundation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Architectural models categories.
For the past thirty years, Japanese photographer Naoya Hatakeyama has undertaken a photographic examination of the life of cities and the built environment. Naoya Hatakeyama: Excavating the Future City is the first English-language survey on this renowned Japanese photographer; his work will be introduced by his own writings, as well as in-depth essays by Yasufumi Nakamori, Toyo Ito, and Philippe Forest.
Excavating The Future
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Author : Shawn Malley
language : en
Publisher:
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Excavating The Future written by Shawn Malley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Archaeology in mass media categories.
A cultural study of an array of popular North American science fiction film and television texts, 'Excavating the Future' explores the popular archaeological imagination and the political uses to which it is being employed by the U.S. state and its adversaries.
Set The Night On Fire
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Author : Mike Davis
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2021-04-13
Set The Night On Fire written by Mike Davis and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-13 with Social Science categories.
Los Angeles Times Bestseller This riveting tour through 1960s Los Angeles is a “history from below, in the very best sense” as it celebrates the “grassroots heroes and struggles” of the social movements of the era (Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Natural Causes). “Authoritative and impressive.” —Los Angeles Times “Monumental.” —Guardian Los Angeles in the sixties was a hotbed of political and social upheaval. The city was a launchpad for Black Power—where Malcolm X and Angela Davis first came to prominence and the Watts uprising shook the nation. The city was home to the Chicano Blowouts and Chicano Moratorium, as well as being the birthplace of “Asian American” as a political identity. It was a locus of the antiwar movement, gay liberation movement, and women’s movement, and, of course, the capital of California counterculture. Mike Davis and Jon Wiener provide the first comprehensive movement history of L.A. in the sixties, drawing on extensive archival research and dozens of interviews with principal figures, as well as the authors’ storied personal histories as activists. Following on from Davis’s award-winning L.A. history, City of Quartz, Set the Night on Fire is a historical tour de force, delivered in scintillating and fiercely beautiful prose.
Excavating The Future
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Author : Shawn Malley
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool Science Fiction Text
Release Date : 2018
Excavating The Future written by Shawn Malley and has been published by Liverpool Science Fiction Text this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Literary Criticism categories.
A cultural study of an array of popular North American science fiction film and television texts, Excavating the Future explores the popular archaeological imagination and the political uses to which it is being employed by the U.S. state and its adversaries.
Planet Of Slums
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Author : Mike Davis
language : en
Publisher: Verso
Release Date : 2007-09-17
Planet Of Slums written by Mike Davis and has been published by Verso this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-17 with Business & Economics categories.
Celebrated urban theorist Davis provides a global overview of the diverse religious, ethnic, and political movements competing for the souls of the new urban poor.
Motel Of The Mysteries
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Author : David Macaulay
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 1979-10-11
Motel Of The Mysteries written by David Macaulay and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979-10-11 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
It is the year 4022; all of the ancient country of Usa has been buried under many feet of detritus from a catastrophe that occurred back in 1985. Imagine, then, the excitement that Howard Carson, an amateur archeologist at best, experienced when in crossing the perimeter of an abandoned excavation site he felt the ground give way beneath him and found himself at the bottom of a shaft, which, judging from the DO NOT DISTURB sign hanging from an archaic doorknob, was clearly the entrance to a still-sealed burial chamber. Carson's incredible discoveries, including the remains of two bodies, one of then on a ceremonial bed facing an altar that appeared to be a means of communicating with the Gods and the other lying in a porcelain sarcophagus in the Inner Chamber, permitted him to piece together the whole fabric of that extraordinary civilization.
Magical Urbanism
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Author : Mike Davis
language : en
Publisher: Verso
Release Date : 2000
Magical Urbanism written by Mike Davis and has been published by Verso this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Architecture categories.
Winner of the 2001 Carey McWilliams Award. This paperback edition of Mike Davis's investigation into the Latinization of America incorporates the extraordinary findings of the 2000 Census as well as new chapters on the militarization of the Border and violence against immigrants.
Ecology Of Fear
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Author : Mike Davis
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2022-02-15
Ecology Of Fear written by Mike Davis and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-15 with Social Science categories.
A witty and engrossing look at Los Angeles' urban ecology and the city's place in America's cultural fantasies Earthquakes. Wildfires. Floods. Drought. Tornadoes. Snakes in the sea, mountain lions, and a plague of bees. In this controversial tour de force of scholarship, unsparing vision, and inspired writing, Mike Davis, the author of City of Quartz, revisits Los Angeles as a Book of the Apocalypse theme park. By brilliantly juxtaposing L.A.'s fragile natural ecology with its disastrous environmental and social history, he compellingly shows a city deliberately put in harm's way by land developers, builders, and politicians, even as the incalculable toll of inevitable future catastrophe continues to accumulate. Counterpointing L.A.'s central role in America's fantasy life--the city has been destroyed no less than 138 times in novels and films since 1909--with its wanton denial of its own real history, Davis creates a revelatory kaleidoscope of American fact, imagery, and sensibility. Drawing upon a vast array of sources, Ecology of Fear meticulously captures the nation's violent malaise and desperate social unease at the millennial end of "the American century." With savagely entertaining wit and compassionate rage, this book conducts a devastating reconnaissance of our all-too-likely urban future.