Imaginary Cities : txt
Darran Anderson.
- 570 p. 21 cm. book
Contents : The Men of a Million Lies , or How We Imagine the World 15 -- Plato ' s Cinema 15 -- The Deceptions of Memory 18 -- Cartography and the Canvas of Blank Spaces 24 -- Faust the Imperial Architect 28 -- The Dialectics of Inspiration 31 -- In Morphia Veritas 34 -- Here be Cities 37 -- Dentata 40 -- Robinsonade 47 -- Where the Wild Things Are 54 -- No North , No South , No East , No West 57 -- The Tower 63 -- The Sun King 65 -- Proteus 75 -- Perfecting the Shipwreck 82 -- The Sublime , Twinned With the Abyss 87 -- Apocalypse Then 90 -- The Urbacides 96 -- Houses of Vice and Virtue 99 -- New Jerusalem , or Nevertown 104 -- Kurtzville 107 -- The Ancient Modernists 111 -- The Map is the Real 114 -- Blueprinting Eternity 118 -- Babel 121 -- The Living Ruins 128 -- The Return of Mammon 134 -- City of Angels 138 -- Discovering the Diagonal 140 -- The Lightning Rod 141 -- Skyscraper Mania 144 -- Elevators Through the Stratosphere 147 -- The Golem 150 -- Vertical Suburbs 154 -- Sanctifying the Secular 156 -- Lift Off 159 -- It Came From the Depths 163 -- The Evaporating Cities 171 -- A Glowing Future 177 -- The Alchemical Cities 181 -- Cities Made Without Hands 181 -- Foundations 189 -- The Wrath of God 192 -- The Drowned World 198 -- Sea steading 209 -- The Seven Invisible Cities of Gold 213 -- The Abiding Desire for No Place 225 -- The Thirteenth Hour 225 -- Cockaigne 229 -- The Biological City 233 -- Possessed 245 -- The Jungle 247 -- The Glass Delusion 258 -- The House of Constructions 266 -- Books Versus Stone 272 -- Remembering the Future 277 -- The Mechanical Heart 277 -- Further Sleepwalking 281 -- Of Steam and Clockwork 289 -- Micropolis 312 -- Tomorrow Will Continue Forever 314 -- Accelerator 318 -- Pow 323 -- Sealess Ships , Grounded Spacecraft and the Curse of the Genie 326 -- Home is Where the Harm Is 334 -- The Cinematic Dystopia of the Everyday 342 -- In Love With Velocity 358 -- On the Road 369 -- The Crystal Palaces 375 -- Plotting the Stars 390 -- Flux Us 397 -- The Megalomania of Cells 416 -- Revolution ! Revolution ! Revolution ! 419 -- Releasing the Golem 436 -- The Turk 441 -- The Pit and the Pendulum 447 -- The Gothic Trojan Horse 450 -- Neo-Neanderthals 459 -- The All-Seeing I 465 -- In Defense of Caliban 468 -- The Gaze 470 -- The Blind Watchmakers 475 -- Guest List 479 -- The Magic Kingdom 502 -- The Last Laugh 504 -- Waste 506 -- No Man ' s City 510 -- Conquest 521 -- Of Wealth and Taste 525 -- Pandemonium 527 -- Nothing Ever Happens 542 -- Flotsam and Jetsam 545 -- The Fall 551 -- The Wounds of Possibility 559 -- Terraforms 561 -- About the author 572 --
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