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TY - BOOK
T1 - Dark Matters
T2 - Manifesto of the Night City
AU - Dunn, Nick
A2 - Khanova, Polina
PY - 2024/12/9
Y1 - 2024/12/9
N2 - British urbanist and cultural theorist Nick Dunn explores the space of the city at night, where the relations between reality and imagination, subject and object, melt away, replaced by the eerie and fluid materiality of poorly digested urban problems, materials, contradictions, clashes and architectures. Darkness here becomes an active force, transforming the routine, the familiar and the daytime into a rich palimpsest that unfolds in a string of ghosts past, present and future. If the maxim of late liberalism, trying to “illuminate” the night landscape, is that at any time of day we should perceive the city as something unproblematic and seamless for our purposes and movements, then this book is an invitation to take a wrong turn.
AB - British urbanist and cultural theorist Nick Dunn explores the space of the city at night, where the relations between reality and imagination, subject and object, melt away, replaced by the eerie and fluid materiality of poorly digested urban problems, materials, contradictions, clashes and architectures. Darkness here becomes an active force, transforming the routine, the familiar and the daytime into a rich palimpsest that unfolds in a string of ghosts past, present and future. If the maxim of late liberalism, trying to “illuminate” the night landscape, is that at any time of day we should perceive the city as something unproblematic and seamless for our purposes and movements, then this book is an invitation to take a wrong turn.
KW - darkness
KW - cities
KW - nightwalking
KW - nocturnal cities
KW - politics of space
KW - urban nights
M3 - Book
SN - 9785604772829
BT - Dark Matters
PB - Hyle Press
CY - Perm, Russia
ER -