David Kishik

The Manhattan Project

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ISBN 13:
9780804786034
author:
David Kishik
format:
HardBack
publisher:
Stanford University Press
language:
English
Publication Year:
2015
Pages:
288
Dimensions:
15.2 x 2.5 x 22.9 cm
Genre:
Art, Architecture & Photography, Architecture, Criticism & Theory
Condition:
New
Availability:
Item usually sent within 10 working days
£26.88

Description

The Manhattan Project A Theory of a City by David Kishik is a thought-provoking study that reimagines Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project as a sequel. Dedicated to New York City, the book presents an imaginary manuscript composed by a ghost and explores the city as a landscape built of sheer life. Through a unique blend of literary montage, fragmentary theory, and implosive manifesto, Kishik examines the secret affinities between various aspects of modern urban culture, including photography, graffiti, pragmatism, minimalism, and the works of Andy Warhol and Jane Jacobs. By weaving together these threads, the book reveals a profound realization: that we have been too focused on changing the city, when it is time to let the city change our way of thinking. This innovative work invites readers to enter a world where the boundaries between theory and practice blur, and where the urban revolution becomes a catalyst for new ways of understanding ourselves and our place in the world.

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