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Capital : New York, Capital of the 20th Century by Kenneth Goldsmith is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Capital : New York, Capital of the 20th Century about?
Acclaimed artist Kenneth Goldsmith’s thousand-page homage to New York City Here is a kaleidoscopic assemblage and poetic history of New York: an unparalleled and original homage to the city, composed entirely of quotations. Drawn from a huge array of sources—histories, memoirs, newspaper articles, novels, government documents, emails—and organized into interpretive categories that reveal the philosophical architecture of the city, Capital is the ne plus ultra of books on the ultimate megalopolis. It is also a book of experimental literature that transposes Walter Benjamin’s unfinished magnum opus of literary montage on the modern city, The Arcades Project, from 19th-century Paris to 20th-century New York, bringing the streets and its inhabitants to life in categories such as “Sex,” “Central Park,” “Commodity,” “Loneliness,” “Gentrification,” “Advertising,” and “Mapplethorpe.” Capital is a book designed to fascinate and to fail—for can a megalopolis truly ever be written? Can a history, no matter how extensive, ever be comprehensive? Each reading of this book, and of New York, is a unique and impossible project.**Review“The book is an ever-rising crescendo of voices talking over an
Who reads Capital : New York, Capital of the 20th Century?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Kenneth Goldsmith
- Publisher
- Verso Books : [distributor] Marston Book Services Ltd : [distributor] United Book Distributors : [distributor] United Book Distributors : [distributor] On the Dot : [distributor] Random House (NY)
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781784781569
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.8 / 5 (9 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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