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Author Kishik, David, author.

Title The Manhattan project : a theory of a city / David Kishik.

Publication Info. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2015.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series To imagine a form of life ; III
Kishik, David. To imagine a form of life ; 3.
Note An imaginary sequel to Walter Benjamin's Arcades project.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary In The Manhattan Project, David Kishik dares to imagine a Walter Benjamin who did not commit suicide in 1940, but managed instead to escape the Nazis to begin a long, solitary life in New York. During his anonymous, posthumous existence, while he was haunting and haunted by his new city, Benjamin composed a sequel to his Arcades Project. Just as his incomplete masterpiece revolved around Paris, capital of the nineteenth century, this spectral text was dedicated to New York, capital of the twentieth. Kishik's sui generis work of experimental scholarship or fictional philosophy is thus presented.
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Subject New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
National Book Committee.
Manners and customs.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject New York (N.Y.) -- Civilization -- 20th century.
Civilization.
New York (State) -- New York.
Cities and towns -- Philosophy.
Cities and towns -- Philosophy.
Civilization, Modern -- Philosophy.
Civilization, Modern -- Philosophy.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Kishik, David, author. Manhattan project 9780804786034 (DLC) 2014033655 (OCoLC)889666428
ISBN 9780804794367 (electronic book)
0804794367 (electronic book)
9780804786034
0804786038