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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Essential Mike Davis) - Softcover

Davis, Mike

 
9781786635891: City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Essential Mike Davis)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1786635895 ISBN 13: 9781786635891
Verlag: Verso Books, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where "you can rot without feeling it." To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide-ranging work of social history, Los Angeles is both utopia and dystopia, a place where the last Joshua trees are being plowed under to make room for model communities in the desert, where the rich have hired their own police to fend off street gangs, as well as armed Beirut militias.

In City of Quartz, Davis reconstructs LA's shadow history and dissects its ethereal economy. He tells us who has the power and how they hold on to it. He gives us a city of Dickensian extremes, Pynchonesque conspiracies, and a desperation straight out of Nathaniel West - a city in which we may glimpse our own future mirrored with terrifying clarity.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Mike Davis (1946-2022) was a writer, political activist, urban theorist, and historian. He is best known for his investigations of power and class in works such as City of Quartz, Late Victorian Holocausts, and Planet of Slums. His last two non-fiction books are Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties, co-authored by Jon Wiener, and The Monster Enters: COVID-19, Avian Flu, and the Plagues of Capitalism. He was the recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and the Lannan Literary Award.

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Verlag
Verso Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1786635895
ISBN 13 
9781786635891
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
512
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VERSO BOOKS
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