Main entry:

Kishik, David, author.

Title & Author:

The Manhattan project : a theory of a city / David Kishik.

Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2015]

Description:

xi, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
An imaginary sequel to Walter Benjamin's Arcades project.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-262) and indexes.
Benjamin in New York -- Not to look upon -- Back to the future -- Think locally -- Implosion -- Sheer life -- A secret about a secret -- Interpenetration -- Livingry -- Thingification -- Reality overdose -- The disenchanted island -- Democracity -- (Ad)dress -- Nonarchitecture -- Truth is concrete -- Infrastructure -- Empire -- The urban revolution -- Hypotheses on modern cities -- Urban philosophy -- Home rule -- City of refuge -- Arendt's city -- Here comes everybody -- Ecopolis -- The library -- The economy of philosophy -- Business art -- Modes of associated life -- Jacobs's city -- How new work begins -- Transactions of decline -- Eminent domain -- Dead-end street -- At night -- Garbage studies -- Junk -- Lost -- Perfect day -- A theory of the homeless -- The homeless philosopher -- A tale of two cities -- Hard-knock life -- Sex and philosophy -- An image of existence -- No ideas but in things -- The marriage of reason and squalor -- Critique of pure movement -- Life sentence -- Spinoza in New Amsterdam.

Summary:

"In The Manhattan Project, David Kishik dares to imagine a Walter Benjamin who did not commit suicide in 1940, but managed instead to escape the Nazis to begin a long, solitary life in New York. During his anonymous, posthumous existence, while he was haunting and haunted by his new city, Benjamin composed a sequel to his Arcades Project. Just as his incomplete masterpiece revolved around Paris, capital of the nineteenth century, this spectral text was dedicated to New York, capital of the twentieth. Kishik's sui generis work of experimental scholarship or fictional philosophy is thus presented as a study of a manuscript that was never written. The fictitious prolongation of Benjamin's life will raise more than one eyebrow, but the wit, breadth, and incisiveness of Kishik's own writing is bound to impress. Kishik reveals a world of secret affinities between New York City and Paris, the flâneur and the homeless person, the collector and the hoarder, the covered arcade and the bare street, but also between photography and graffiti, pragmatism and minimalism, Andy Warhol and Robert Moses, Hannah Arendt and Jane Jacobs. A critical celebration of New York City, The Manhattan Project reshapes our perception of urban life, and rethinks our very conception of modernity."--Publisher's website.

ISBN:

9780804786034 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0804786038 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9781503602779 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
150360277X (pbk. ; alk. paper)
(e-book)
9780804794367

Subject:

Cities and towns Philosophy.
Civilization, Modern Philosophy.
Villes Philosophie.
Civilization.
Manners and customs.
Stadtleben
Stadt
Kultur
New York (N.Y.) Social life and customs 20th century.
New York (N.Y.) Civilization 20th century.
New York (N.Y.) Mœurs et coutumes 20e siècle.
New York (State) New York.
New York, NY

Added entries:

Kishik, David. To imagine a form of life ; 3.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 294222
Call No.: BIB 239626
Status: Available