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This document discusses two theorists, Georg Simmel and Siegfried Kracauer, and their analysis of spatial estrangement in cities in the late 19th century. It argues that both used spatial paradigms and urban spaces as illustrations of social conditions and alienation in modernity. For these theorists, tangible spaces like streets, arcades, and hotel lobbies represented the "transcendental homelessness" of modern life. While their spatial images and metaphors have often been obscured by a focus on temporalit

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Arthur Bueno

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