This book explores the visual transformation of the contemporary European city, focusing on the most emblematic and visibly wounded of all European cities Berlin. Taking as its subject the "intricately assembled, relentlessly disassembling metropolitan screen," it charts the virulent implosions of culture, the distortions and violence that give city-living its fractured and hallucinatory quality. Provocatively written as a series of inter-locking poetic fragments, the text evokes the formation of metropolitan "identity" as it ricochets between the physical surface of the city and the...
This book explores the visual transformation of the contemporary European city, focusing on the most emblematic and visibly wounded of all European ci...
With a foreword by former BBC political editor and Ambassador to Washington Peter Jay, this collection of essays examines the geo-political and economic implications of the City of London's financial markets in a globalised world. Exploring globalisation, the growth of China and India, terrorism, corporate social responsibility, the powerful foreign exchange markets and questions of democratic control, this book is lively and stimulating.
With a foreword by former BBC political editor and Ambassador to Washington Peter Jay, this collection of essays examines the geo-political and econom...
Stephen Barber takes the reader on an extraordinary journey from LA to Tokyo via Europe. He carries only a crumpled map in his pocket, a map which plots a horrifying past, a disappearing present and a future collapsing into banality. A virtual reality flight across this territory reveals the surfaces of things, a landscape made by war and technological advances. Coming back to earth and to his own body, Stephen Barber follows the map from city to city. He discovers how cities, once densely layered with a civilization's history of follies and obsessions, are increasingly oblivious places,...
Stephen Barber takes the reader on an extraordinary journey from LA to Tokyo via Europe. He carries only a crumpled map in his pocket, a map which ...
Extreme Europe explores the urban extremes of Europe in their cultural, physical, geographical and mythical dimensions, considering the history and visual culture of Europe in the decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Barber's purpose is to examine Europe's cities and their surrounding areas as sites of a conflict between the mesmerizing, all-engulfing power of visual media and the barely surviving traces of tenacious historical culture; his premise is that the "breakdown zones" at Europe's urban edges are the sites where its oppositional and most vital images and languages are...
Extreme Europe explores the urban extremes of Europe in their cultural, physical, geographical and mythical dimensions, considering the history...
An engaging and challenging introduction to Jean Genet, this concise biography of the French writer and his work cuts directly to the intersection of thought and life that was essential to Genet's creativity. Arguing that Genet's life was an extraordinary spectacle in which the themes of his most revolutionary works were played out, Stephen Barber gives both the work and its singular inspiration in Genet's life their full due. Abandoned, arrested, and repeatedly incarcerated, Genet, who died in 1986, led a life that could best be described as a tour of the underworld of the twentieth...
An engaging and challenging introduction to Jean Genet, this concise biography of the French writer and his work cuts directly to the intersection of ...
For all of the technical explanations for meltdown in the financial marketsduring the banking crisis, the most readily accepted and almost universal explanation is the single word 'greed'.This is a subject which can at once be seen as the disease at the heart of society and the motivating force behind the progress of mankind."
For all of the technical explanations for meltdown in the financial marketsduring the banking crisis, the most readily accepted and almost universal e...
