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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Miller, John, 1946 Mar. 11- Egotopia. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1997 (OCoLC)605308488 Online version: Miller, John, 1946 Mar. 11- Egotopia. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1997 (OCoLC)608843195 |
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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
John Miller |
| ISBN: | 0817309012 9780817309015 |
| OCLC Number: | 36713078 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | xvi, 167 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Dark satanic malls -- The New Man: mimesis and immanence -- The New American Landscape: ego and Egotopia -- The myth of travel and the necessity of motion -- The aesthetics of the New Man: Beauty R Us -- Billboards: dominant visual modality of the New American Landscape -- The commercialization of public space -- The American landscape that might have been -- The innate Philistinism of the environmental movement -- Democracy, therapy, and the triumph of bad taste -- Breaking the spell: The future of the New American Landscape. |
| Responsibility: | John Miller ; with a foreword by Ashley Montagu. |
Abstract:
"Metaphoridcally, the ugliness of America's great suburban sprawl is the physical manifestation of our increasing narcissism--our egotopia."
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