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Is the capital of Latin America a small island at the mouth of the Hudson River? Will California soon hold the balance of power in Mexican national politics? Will Latinos reinvigorate the US labor movement? These are some of the provocative questions that Mike Davis explores in this fascinating account of the Latinization of the US urban landscape. As he forefully shows,(...)
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Is the capital of Latin America a small island at the mouth of the Hudson River? Will California soon hold the balance of power in Mexican national politics? Will Latinos reinvigorate the US labor movement? These are some of the provocative questions that Mike Davis explores in this fascinating account of the Latinization of the US urban landscape. As he forefully shows,(...)
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Magical urbanism: Latinos reinvent the US city
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Is the capital of Latin America a small island at the mouth of the Hudson River? Will California soon hold the balance of power in Mexican national politics? Will Latinos reinvigorate the US labor movement? These are some of the provocative questions that Mike Davis explores in this fascinating account of the Latinization of the US urban landscape. As he forefully shows, this is a demographic and cultural revolution with extraordinary implications. With Spanish surnames increasing five times faster than the general population, salsa is becoming the predominant ethnic rhythm (and flavor) of contemporary city life. In Los Angeles, Houston, San Antonio, and (shortly) Dallas, Latinos outnumber non-Hispanic whites; in New York, San Diego and Phoenix they outnumber Blacks. According to the Bureau of the Census, Latinos will supply fully two-thirds of the nation’s population growth between now and the middle of the 21st century when nearly 100 millions Americans will boast Latin American ancestry.
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Is the capital of Latin America a small island at the mouth of the Hudson River? Will California soon hold the balance of power in Mexican national politics? Will Latinos reinvigorate the US labor movement? These are some of the provocative questions that Mike Davis explores in this fascinating account of the Latinization of the US urban landscape. As he forefully shows, this is a demographic and cultural revolution with extraordinary implications. With Spanish surnames increasing five times faster than the general population, salsa is becoming the predominant ethnic rhythm (and flavor) of contemporary city life. In Los Angeles, Houston, San Antonio, and (shortly) Dallas, Latinos outnumber non-Hispanic whites; in New York, San Diego and Phoenix they outnumber Blacks. According to the Bureau of the Census, Latinos will supply fully two-thirds of the nation’s population growth between now and the middle of the 21st century when nearly 100 millions Americans will boast Latin American ancestry.
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June 2024
June 2024
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Urban Theory
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Planet of slums
Planet of slums
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In this book, Mike Davis explores the future of a radically unequal and explosively unstable urban world. From the sprawling barricadas of Lima to the garbage hills of Manila, urbanization has been disconnected from industrialization, and even from economic growth. Davis portrays a vast humanity warehoused in shantytowns and exiled from the formal world economy. He argues(...)
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In this book, Mike Davis explores the future of a radically unequal and explosively unstable urban world. From the sprawling barricadas of Lima to the garbage hills of Manila, urbanization has been disconnected from industrialization, and even from economic growth. Davis portrays a vast humanity warehoused in shantytowns and exiled from the formal world economy. He argues(...)
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Planet of slums
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In this book, Mike Davis explores the future of a radically unequal and explosively unstable urban world. From the sprawling barricadas of Lima to the garbage hills of Manila, urbanization has been disconnected from industrialization, and even from economic growth. Davis portrays a vast humanity warehoused in shantytowns and exiled from the formal world economy. He argues that the rise of this informal urban proletariat is a wholly unforeseen development, and asks whether the great slums, as a terrified Victorian middle class once imagined, are volcanoes waiting to erupt.
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In this book, Mike Davis explores the future of a radically unequal and explosively unstable urban world. From the sprawling barricadas of Lima to the garbage hills of Manila, urbanization has been disconnected from industrialization, and even from economic growth. Davis portrays a vast humanity warehoused in shantytowns and exiled from the formal world economy. He argues that the rise of this informal urban proletariat is a wholly unforeseen development, and asks whether the great slums, as a terrified Victorian middle class once imagined, are volcanoes waiting to erupt.
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January 2017
January 2017
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Late Victorian Holocausts focuses on three zones of drought and subsequent famine: India, Northern China; and Northeastern Brazil. All were affected by the same global climatic factors that caused massive crop failures, and all experienced brutal famines that decimated local populations. But the effects of drought were magnified in each case because of singularly(...)
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Late Victorian Holocausts focuses on three zones of drought and subsequent famine: India, Northern China; and Northeastern Brazil. All were affected by the same global climatic factors that caused massive crop failures, and all experienced brutal famines that decimated local populations. But the effects of drought were magnified in each case because of singularly(...)
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Late Victorian Holocausts: El niño famines and the making of the Third World
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Late Victorian Holocausts focuses on three zones of drought and subsequent famine: India, Northern China; and Northeastern Brazil. All were affected by the same global climatic factors that caused massive crop failures, and all experienced brutal famines that decimated local populations. But the effects of drought were magnified in each case because of singularly destructive policies promulgated by different ruling elites.
Late Victorian Holocausts: El niño famines and the making of the Third World
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Late Victorian Holocausts focuses on three zones of drought and subsequent famine: India, Northern China; and Northeastern Brazil. All were affected by the same global climatic factors that caused massive crop failures, and all experienced brutal famines that decimated local populations. But the effects of drought were magnified in each case because of singularly destructive policies promulgated by different ruling elites.
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January 2017
January 2017
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Environment and environmental theory
Environment and environmental theory
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No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, “Los Angeles brings it all together.” To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where “you can rot without feeling it.” To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide- ranging work of social history, Los Angeles is both utopia and dystopia, a place where the last Joshua trees are being(...)
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No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, “Los Angeles brings it all together.” To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where “you can rot without feeling it.” To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide- ranging work of social history, Los Angeles is both utopia and dystopia, a place where the last Joshua trees are being(...)
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City of quartz: excavating the future in Los Angeles
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No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, “Los Angeles brings it all together.” To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where “you can rot without feeling it.” To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide- ranging work of social history, Los Angeles is both utopia and dystopia, a place where the last Joshua trees are being plowed under to make room for model communities in the desert, where the rich have hired their own police to fend off street gangs, as well as armed Beirut militias. In "City of Quartz", Davis reconstructs LA’s shadow history and dissects its ethereal economy. He tells us who has the power and how they hold on to it. He gives us a city of Dickensian extremes, Pynchonesque conspiracies, and a desperation straight out of Nathaniel Westa city in which we may glimpse our own future mirrored with terrifying clarity.
City of quartz: excavating the future in Los Angeles
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No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, “Los Angeles brings it all together.” To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where “you can rot without feeling it.” To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide- ranging work of social history, Los Angeles is both utopia and dystopia, a place where the last Joshua trees are being plowed under to make room for model communities in the desert, where the rich have hired their own police to fend off street gangs, as well as armed Beirut militias. In "City of Quartz", Davis reconstructs LA’s shadow history and dissects its ethereal economy. He tells us who has the power and how they hold on to it. He gives us a city of Dickensian extremes, Pynchonesque conspiracies, and a desperation straight out of Nathaniel Westa city in which we may glimpse our own future mirrored with terrifying clarity.
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July 2018
July 2018
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Earthquakes. Wildfires. Floods. Drought. Tornadoes. Snakes in the sea, mountain lions, and a plague of bees. In this controversial tour de force of scholarship, unsparing vision, and inspired writing, Mike Davis, the author of ''City of quartz'', revisits Los Angeles as a Book of the Apocalypse theme park. By brilliantly juxtaposing L.A.’s fragile natural ecology with its(...)
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Earthquakes. Wildfires. Floods. Drought. Tornadoes. Snakes in the sea, mountain lions, and a plague of bees. In this controversial tour de force of scholarship, unsparing vision, and inspired writing, Mike Davis, the author of ''City of quartz'', revisits Los Angeles as a Book of the Apocalypse theme park. By brilliantly juxtaposing L.A.’s fragile natural ecology with its(...)
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Ecology of fear: Los Angeles and the imagination of disaster
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Earthquakes. Wildfires. Floods. Drought. Tornadoes. Snakes in the sea, mountain lions, and a plague of bees. In this controversial tour de force of scholarship, unsparing vision, and inspired writing, Mike Davis, the author of ''City of quartz'', revisits Los Angeles as a Book of the Apocalypse theme park. By brilliantly juxtaposing L.A.’s fragile natural ecology with its disastrous environmental and social history, he compellingly shows a city deliberately put in harm’s way by land developers, builders, and politicians, even as the incalculable toll of inevitable future catastrophe continues to accumulate. Counterpointing L.A.’s central role in America’s fantasy life–the city has been destroyed no less than 138 times in novels and films since 1909–with its wanton denial of its own real history, Davis creates a revelatory kaleidoscope of American fact, imagery, and sensibility. Drawing upon a vast array of sources, ''Ecology of fear'' meticulously captures the nation’s violent malaise and desperate social unease at the millennial end of ''the American century.'' With savagely entertaining wit and compassionate rage, this book conducts a devastating reconnaissance of our all-too-likely urban future.
Ecology of fear: Los Angeles and the imagination of disaster
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Earthquakes. Wildfires. Floods. Drought. Tornadoes. Snakes in the sea, mountain lions, and a plague of bees. In this controversial tour de force of scholarship, unsparing vision, and inspired writing, Mike Davis, the author of ''City of quartz'', revisits Los Angeles as a Book of the Apocalypse theme park. By brilliantly juxtaposing L.A.’s fragile natural ecology with its disastrous environmental and social history, he compellingly shows a city deliberately put in harm’s way by land developers, builders, and politicians, even as the incalculable toll of inevitable future catastrophe continues to accumulate. Counterpointing L.A.’s central role in America’s fantasy life–the city has been destroyed no less than 138 times in novels and films since 1909–with its wanton denial of its own real history, Davis creates a revelatory kaleidoscope of American fact, imagery, and sensibility. Drawing upon a vast array of sources, ''Ecology of fear'' meticulously captures the nation’s violent malaise and desperate social unease at the millennial end of ''the American century.'' With savagely entertaining wit and compassionate rage, this book conducts a devastating reconnaissance of our all-too-likely urban future.
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February 2022
February 2022
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Urban Theory
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Cet essai sociologique, urbanistique et politique montre ce que serait le visage futur de la ville, moins spectaculaire et plus effrayant que la vision futuriste offerte par Philip K. Dick. L'ouvrage explique que Los Angeles porte déjà en elle le modèle vers lequel tendent toutes les mégapoles : la destruction de la mixité sociale par cloisonnement strict des couches de population.
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Cet essai sociologique, urbanistique et politique montre ce que serait le visage futur de la ville, moins spectaculaire et plus effrayant que la vision futuriste offerte par Philip K. Dick. L'ouvrage explique que Los Angeles porte déjà en elle le modèle vers lequel tendent toutes les mégapoles : la destruction de la mixité sociale par cloisonnement strict des couches de population.
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Au-delà de Blade Runner : Los Angeles et l'imagination du désastre, n.é.
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Cet essai sociologique, urbanistique et politique montre ce que serait le visage futur de la ville, moins spectaculaire et plus effrayant que la vision futuriste offerte par Philip K. Dick. L'ouvrage explique que Los Angeles porte déjà en elle le modèle vers lequel tendent toutes les mégapoles : la destruction de la mixité sociale par cloisonnement strict des couches de population.
Au-delà de Blade Runner : Los Angeles et l'imagination du désastre, n.é.
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Cet essai sociologique, urbanistique et politique montre ce que serait le visage futur de la ville, moins spectaculaire et plus effrayant que la vision futuriste offerte par Philip K. Dick. L'ouvrage explique que Los Angeles porte déjà en elle le modèle vers lequel tendent toutes les mégapoles : la destruction de la mixité sociale par cloisonnement strict des couches de population.
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March 2019
March 2019
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Introduction by Lucy Lippard, essay by Mike Davis. Between October 2006 and April 2007, three gardens were given away. Each garden was planted in one of the three microclimates in San Francisco: sunbelt, transition belt and fog belt. The households were selected based on an ad posted on Craiglist. It was posted on October 10th ad midnight. By 9:30am October 11th, we had(...)
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Introduction by Lucy Lippard, essay by Mike Davis. Between October 2006 and April 2007, three gardens were given away. Each garden was planted in one of the three microclimates in San Francisco: sunbelt, transition belt and fog belt. The households were selected based on an ad posted on Craiglist. It was posted on October 10th ad midnight. By 9:30am October 11th, we had(...)
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September 2008, San Francisco
September 2008, San Francisco
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Amy Franceschini: victory gardens 2007: a plan for subsidized urban gardens
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Introduction by Lucy Lippard, essay by Mike Davis. Between October 2006 and April 2007, three gardens were given away. Each garden was planted in one of the three microclimates in San Francisco: sunbelt, transition belt and fog belt. The households were selected based on an ad posted on Craiglist. It was posted on October 10th ad midnight. By 9:30am October 11th, we had received over 800 responses. Each garden was delivered on the Victory Garden Trike and included a planting party, a Starter Kit, and two lessons. The lessons included how to build a raised bed, install a drip system, planting instructions, seasonal planting, seed saving, harvesting methods, composting, and canning. 1 Artist 1 Concept is a series of books by individual artists, produced by The Expanding Color System.
Amy Franceschini: victory gardens 2007: a plan for subsidized urban gardens
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Introduction by Lucy Lippard, essay by Mike Davis. Between October 2006 and April 2007, three gardens were given away. Each garden was planted in one of the three microclimates in San Francisco: sunbelt, transition belt and fog belt. The households were selected based on an ad posted on Craiglist. It was posted on October 10th ad midnight. By 9:30am October 11th, we had received over 800 responses. Each garden was delivered on the Victory Garden Trike and included a planting party, a Starter Kit, and two lessons. The lessons included how to build a raised bed, install a drip system, planting instructions, seasonal planting, seed saving, harvesting methods, composting, and canning. 1 Artist 1 Concept is a series of books by individual artists, produced by The Expanding Color System.
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September 2008, San Francisco
September 2008, San Francisco
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Mike Davis : dead cities
Mike Davis : dead cities
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Une Terre où la nature recouvre peu à peu ses droits sur la ville après la disparition de l'espèce humaine. Une architecture bunkerisée dédiée à la sécurité et au contrôle comme réponse à l'effondrement des Twin Towers. Des répliques d'immeubles allemands et japonais érigées dans le désert de l'Utah pour servir de laboratoire au dernier grand projet du New Deal : la(...)
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Une Terre où la nature recouvre peu à peu ses droits sur la ville après la disparition de l'espèce humaine. Une architecture bunkerisée dédiée à la sécurité et au contrôle comme réponse à l'effondrement des Twin Towers. Des répliques d'immeubles allemands et japonais érigées dans le désert de l'Utah pour servir de laboratoire au dernier grand projet du New Deal : la(...)
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Mike Davis : dead cities
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Une Terre où la nature recouvre peu à peu ses droits sur la ville après la disparition de l'espèce humaine. Une architecture bunkerisée dédiée à la sécurité et au contrôle comme réponse à l'effondrement des Twin Towers. Des répliques d'immeubles allemands et japonais érigées dans le désert de l'Utah pour servir de laboratoire au dernier grand projet du New Deal : la destruction par le feu des villes ennemies. Dévastée par les bombes ou les stylos rouges des spéculateurs immobiliers, la Grande Ville capitaliste s'est révélée particulièrement apte à réaliser certaines prophéties catastrophistes. Dans ce livre, Mike Davis nous montre que, depuis son émergence, elle n'a cessé d'être associée dans l'esprit des hommes au spectre apocalyptique de sa propre destruction. S'inscrivant dans la tradition marxiste d'Ernst Bloch, il affirme que l'aliénation cognitive produite par la mise au ban de la nature dans l'expérience collective a suscité une angoisse constante tout au long du xxe siècle. Dans une veine à la fois mélancolique et optimiste (le système capitaliste n'est qu'un stade de l'histoire humaine appelé à être dépassé), Mike Davis invite donc à une nouvelle science urbaine qui s'appuierait sur la " dialectique ville-nature ". Celle-ci permettrait d'envisager la ville dans la totalité des interactions qu'elle entretient avec son " dehors naturel ", et de déjouer les limites actuelles des études urbaines. Cela passe ici par un travail spéculatif s'appuyant sur une hypothèse - la disparition de l'homme - et sur un extraordinaire corpus littéraire et scientifique, où les espèces végétales et animales dansent sur les cendres de nos villes mortes.
Mike Davis : dead cities
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Une Terre où la nature recouvre peu à peu ses droits sur la ville après la disparition de l'espèce humaine. Une architecture bunkerisée dédiée à la sécurité et au contrôle comme réponse à l'effondrement des Twin Towers. Des répliques d'immeubles allemands et japonais érigées dans le désert de l'Utah pour servir de laboratoire au dernier grand projet du New Deal : la destruction par le feu des villes ennemies. Dévastée par les bombes ou les stylos rouges des spéculateurs immobiliers, la Grande Ville capitaliste s'est révélée particulièrement apte à réaliser certaines prophéties catastrophistes. Dans ce livre, Mike Davis nous montre que, depuis son émergence, elle n'a cessé d'être associée dans l'esprit des hommes au spectre apocalyptique de sa propre destruction. S'inscrivant dans la tradition marxiste d'Ernst Bloch, il affirme que l'aliénation cognitive produite par la mise au ban de la nature dans l'expérience collective a suscité une angoisse constante tout au long du xxe siècle. Dans une veine à la fois mélancolique et optimiste (le système capitaliste n'est qu'un stade de l'histoire humaine appelé à être dépassé), Mike Davis invite donc à une nouvelle science urbaine qui s'appuierait sur la " dialectique ville-nature ". Celle-ci permettrait d'envisager la ville dans la totalité des interactions qu'elle entretient avec son " dehors naturel ", et de déjouer les limites actuelles des études urbaines. Cela passe ici par un travail spéculatif s'appuyant sur une hypothèse - la disparition de l'homme - et sur un extraordinaire corpus littéraire et scientifique, où les espèces végétales et animales dansent sur les cendres de nos villes mortes.
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July 2012
July 2012
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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Véritable laboratoire social et urbanistique, Los Angeles préfigure le modèle à venir des mégapoles modernes : destruction de toute mixité sociale par le cloisonnement strict des populations dans des quartiers réservés, laissés, pour certains, à l’abandon et à la domination des gangs, tandis que les couches les plus aisées se “bunkerisent" grâce à la généralisation de la(...)
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Véritable laboratoire social et urbanistique, Los Angeles préfigure le modèle à venir des mégapoles modernes : destruction de toute mixité sociale par le cloisonnement strict des populations dans des quartiers réservés, laissés, pour certains, à l’abandon et à la domination des gangs, tandis que les couches les plus aisées se “bunkerisent" grâce à la généralisation de la(...)
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Au-delà de Blade Runner: Los Angeles et l'imagination du désastre
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Véritable laboratoire social et urbanistique, Los Angeles préfigure le modèle à venir des mégapoles modernes : destruction de toute mixité sociale par le cloisonnement strict des populations dans des quartiers réservés, laissés, pour certains, à l’abandon et à la domination des gangs, tandis que les couches les plus aisées se “bunkerisent" grâce à la généralisation de la vidéo-surveillance et des milices de sécurité privées. La ville vit désormais dans un état perpétuel de “guerre sociale de faible intensité”, susceptible à tout moment d’éclater, comme lors des émeutes provoquées par le tabassage de Rodney King. À la fois sociologique, urbanistique et politique, illustré de photos saisissantes, l’essai de Mike Davis, qui s’appuie autant sur des statistiques précises que sur son expérience personnelle, offre, au-delà du cas de Los Angeles, un portrait poignant de l’Amérique contemporaine et présage de l’évolution qui menace les sociétés occidentales.
Au-delà de Blade Runner: Los Angeles et l'imagination du désastre
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Véritable laboratoire social et urbanistique, Los Angeles préfigure le modèle à venir des mégapoles modernes : destruction de toute mixité sociale par le cloisonnement strict des populations dans des quartiers réservés, laissés, pour certains, à l’abandon et à la domination des gangs, tandis que les couches les plus aisées se “bunkerisent" grâce à la généralisation de la vidéo-surveillance et des milices de sécurité privées. La ville vit désormais dans un état perpétuel de “guerre sociale de faible intensité”, susceptible à tout moment d’éclater, comme lors des émeutes provoquées par le tabassage de Rodney King. À la fois sociologique, urbanistique et politique, illustré de photos saisissantes, l’essai de Mike Davis, qui s’appuie autant sur des statistiques précises que sur son expérience personnelle, offre, au-delà du cas de Los Angeles, un portrait poignant de l’Amérique contemporaine et présage de l’évolution qui menace les sociétés occidentales.
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March 2014
March 2014
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Art Theory
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