{"product_id":"the-manhattan-project-a-theory-of-a-city-paperback","title":"The Manhattan Project: A Theory of a City - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Kishik\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis sharp, witty study of a book never written, a sequel to Walter Benjamin's \u003ci\u003eArcades Project\u003c\/i\u003e, is dedicated to New York City, capital of the twentieth century. A \u003ci\u003esui generis\u003c\/i\u003e work of experimental scholarship or fictional philosophy, it analyzes an imaginary manuscript composed by a ghost. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart sprawling literary montage, part fragmentary theory of modernity, part implosive manifesto on the urban revolution, \u003ci\u003eThe Manhattan Project\u003c\/i\u003e offers readers New York as a landscape built of sheer life. It initiates them into a world of secret affinities between photography and graffiti, pragmatism and minimalism, Andy Warhol and Robert Moses, Hannah Arendt and Jane Jacobs, the flâneur and the homeless person, the collector and the hoarder, the glass-covered arcade and the bare, concrete street. These and many other threads can all be spooled back into one realization: for far too long, we have busied ourselves with thinking about ways to change the city; it is about time we let the city change the way we think.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Kishik\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor at Emerson College and the author of \u003ci\u003eTo Imagine a Form of Life\u003c\/i\u003e, a series of paraphilosophical books.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 14, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51760606839072,"sku":"9781503602779","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/63b251184d31a82e001476b5bc9ef1d0.webp?v=1780184643","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-manhattan-project-a-theory-of-a-city-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}