Specular City The Transformation of Culture, Consumption

Name: Specular City The Transformation of Culture, Consumption
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ISBN: 9781566399487

ISBN-10: 1566399483

ISBN-13: 9781566399487

Edition: 2004

Authors: Laura Podalsky

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Podalsky tells the history of Buenos Aires during the interregnum after Peron's fall from power and before his restoration.

Book details

List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Temple University Press
Publication date: 6/15/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Laura Podalsky is Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Ohio State University.



Introduction : urban formations and critical scaffolding


Interruption : the spectacular city



Residual voices and emergent practices : reformulating Buenos Aires after Peron


Interstices : the politics of bricolage in Villas Miserias and Berni's collages



High-rise apartments, arcades, cars, Hoteles de Cita, and the public-private divide


Interlude : the Di Tella and the Manzana Loca



Circulating desires : the culture industry and the promotion of new urban subjectivities


Interspersion : architecture on the up and out



Consuming sex in the city : censorship and the dangers of promiscuous texts


Intervention : La hora de los hornos in the advertising age