The Time of the City
Politics, philosophy and genre
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:9th Jun '10
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This book explores the intricate relationships between urban life and micropolitics, offering unique insights into ethnicity, identity, and security. The Time of the City is a significant contribution.
Engaging with critical theory, poststructuralist perspectives, cultural studies, film theory, and urban studies, The Time of the City offers profound insights into the micropolitics of ethnicity, identity, security, subjectivity, and sovereignty. This trans-disciplinary work emphasizes the intricate relationships between genre and city, exploring how these dynamics shape urban life in various cultural contexts. By shifting the focus of political studies from traditional state-centric views to the global network of cities, the book presents a fresh lens through which to understand urban dynamics.
The Time of the City draws on urban theory rather than conventional forms of city politics, employing diverse methodologies informed by aesthetics and philosophy. The chapters incorporate concepts from political theory, literary studies, cinema studies, poetics, and aesthetic theory, examining cities such as Berlin, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC. This rich tapestry of ideas allows for a nuanced exploration of urban formations and the complexities inherent in city life.
By developing a geophilosophy suitable for urban spaces, the book provides a multi-genre approach to understanding urban existence. The insights offered are not only stunning but also essential for grasping the intricate micropolitics that define contemporary urban environments. The Time of the City is a vital contribution to the fields of cultural studies and urban theory, pushing boundaries and inviting readers to reconsider their perceptions of urban life.
There are few political thinkers writing today who can bear the burden of breadth that an aesthetically sensitive mode of political theorizing demands. Michael Shapiro is exemplary amongst them. In "The Time of the City", Shapiro’s bold bricolages take center stage by re-energizing our lethargic political methodologies and infusing them with a perspicuous attention to the aesthetic modes of association and dissociation in democratic life. This is not simply a work that anyone interested in film, urban politics, race studies, and cultural and democratic theory must read; it is a book they will want to read over and over again. - Davide Panagia, Co-Editor, Theory & Event and Canada Research Chair in Cultural Studies, Trent University, Canada
Starting with his brilliant insights on Berlin’s new status as the cultural capital of Western Europe, Shapiro masterfully cuts across conventional disciplinary boundaries and reflects on diverse artistic genres as he exposes his readers to the crucial global-local dynamics of the contemporary urban experience. - Manfred B. Steger, Professor of Global Studies and Director of the Globalism Research Centre Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia
Film is becoming ‘for real’ as its techniques are transferred into the city and the city becomes understood through its techniques. Shapiro understands this complex inter-play as a way of rethinking the political and method at one and the same time, thereby producing a new means of studying film and the city and an indispensable book for urbanists, political scientists, and scholars of film. - Nigel Thrift, Vice-Chancellor, Warwick University, UK
As attuned to the spatial as it is to the temporal, and as theoretically sophisticated as it is politically relevant, this is a powerful and intriguing meditation on cities of the page, the screen and the moment. - Stuart Elden, Professor of Political Geography, Durham University, UK
[Time of the City] is an exemplary combination of political theory and the study of urban politics...Like Machiavelli's trip to the hillside and the valley, to princes and popular factions, Shapiro's journey to global cities is an exercise in political vision, and I recommend accompanying him.- Ronald J. Schmidt, Theory and Event (December Issue 14.4)
ISBN: 9780415780537
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 420g
228 pages