UID:
almahu_9948686799702882
Format:
1 online resource (384 pages) :
,
illustrations (black and white, and colour).
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9780191886034 (ebook) :
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
Content:
From the invention of skyscrapers and airplanes to the development of the nuclear bomb, ideas about the 'modern' increasingly revolved around vertiginous images of elevation and decline and new technologies of mobility and terror from above. In this book, Paul Haacke examines this turn by focusing on discourses of aspiration, catastrophe, and power in major works of European and American literature as well as film, architecture, and intellectual and cultural history.
Note:
This edition also issued in print: 2021.
Additional Edition:
Print version : ISBN 9780198851448
Language:
English
URL:
Oxford scholarship online
