Globalization, Violence and the Visual Culture of Cities

by Lindner; Christoph

• ISBN13: 9780415482141
• ISBN10: 0415482143
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-09-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book is the first interdisciplinary volume to examine the complex relationship between globalization, violence, and the visual culture of cities

Author Biography

Christoph Lindner is Professor and Chair of English Literature at the University of Amsterdam and Research Affiliate at the University of London Institute in Paris. His recent book publications include Revisioning 007(2009), Urban Space and Cityscapes (2006), and Fictions of Commodity Culture (2003).

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. xi
List of Contributors	p. xiv
Foreword	p. xv
Acknowledgements	p. xvii
Globalization and violence	p. 1
Fear	p. 15
Architecture and economies of violence
São Paulo as case study	p. 17
Drugs and assassins in the city of flows	p. 32
Temporary discomfort
Jules Spinatsch's documentation of global summits	p. 49
American military imaginaries and Iraqi cities
The visual economies of globalizing war	p. 67
Memory	p. 85
Globalization and the remembrance of violence
Visual culture, space, and time in Berlin	p. 87
Trash aesthetics
New York, globalization, and garbage	p. 107
Global Beijing
'The World' is a violent place	p. 122
Spectacle	p. 135
The poetics of scale in urban photography	p. 137
Globalization and cultural capital
Symbolic violence in recent filmic images of Paris	p. 150
Conspiracy, surveillance, and the spatial turn in the Bourne Trilogy	p. 161
Bibliography	p. 172
Index	p. 181
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