The Time of the City: Politics, Philosophy and Genre

ISBN-13: 9780415780537 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 228 str.

Michael J Shapiro

Opis

This is a trans-disciplinary work with a focus on genre-city relationships as they articulate the micropolitics of urban life in diverse cities. The chapters deploy concepts from philosophy, political theory, literary studies, cinema studies, poetics and aesthetic theory on diverse cities, among which are Berlin and London.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Geophilosophy, Aesthetics, and the City  2. The Now Time(s) of the GlobalCity: Displacing Hegel's Geopolitical Narrative  3. Managing Urban Security: City Walls and Policing Metis  4. Neo-Noir and Urban Domesticity: The Wachowski Brothers’ Bound  5. Gothic Philadelphia: Divided Subjects and Fractionated Assemblages  6. Bodies and the City: Washington DC  7. Walt Whitman and the Ethnopoetics of New York  8. Inter-City Cinema: Hong Kong at the Berlinale

O autorze

Michael J. Shapiro is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawaii. Among his publications are Methods and Nations: Cultural Governance and the Indigenous Subject (2004), Deforming American Political Though: Ethnicity, Facticity, and Genre (2006) and Cinematic Geopolitics (2009).