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City of panic

Author: Paul Virilio
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2007.
Series: Culture machine series.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : Pbk. edView all editions and formats
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Written in the shadow of war, City of Panic argues that cities everywhere have been the dedicated target of political and technological terror throughout the 20th century. The wanton erasure of the past, the construction of identikit places, the proliferation of gated-communities, the ever-widening net of surveillance, the privatization of what was public. In this globalized and militarized "everywhere," all  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Paul Virilio
ISBN: 1845203585 9781845203580 9781845202248 1845202244
OCLC Number: 184855297
Language Note: Translated from the French.
Description: xi, 148 p. ; 19 cm.
Contents: Tabula rasa --
The democracy of emotion --
Kriegstrasse --
An accident in time --
City of panic --
The twilight of place.
Series Title: Culture machine series.
Other Titles: Ville panique.
Responsibility: Paul Virilio ; translated by Julie Rose.
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Takes the reader on a journey across the airy boulevards of Paris and into the crypt of its Metro. Written in the shadow of war, this work argues that cities everywhere have been the dedicated target  Read more...

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'Essential reading for anyone trying to make sense of America's out-of-control war of prevention.' The Guardian 'A speed-driven stream of consciousness centring on the city-world, the metropolitics Read more...

 
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