{"product_id":"the-architecture-of-phantasmagoria-specters-of-the-city-9781138601512","title":"The Architecture of Phantasmagoria: Specters of the City","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Libero Andreotti | Nadir Lahiji\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Urban \u0026amp; Land Use Planning\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a time of mass-mediated modernity, the city becomes, almost by definition, a constitutively 'mediated' city. Today, more than ever before, the omnipresence of media in every sphere of culture is creating a new urban ontology, saturating, fracturing, and exacerbating the manifold experience of city life. The authors describe this condition as one of 'hyper-mediation' - a qualitatively new phase in the city's historical evolution. The concept of \u003cem\u003ephantasmagoria\u003c\/em\u003e has pride of place in their study; using it as an all-embracing explanatory framework, they explore its meanings as a critical category to understand the culture, and the architecture, of the contemporary city.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndreotti and Lahiji argue that any account of architecture that does not include understanding the role and function of media and its impact on the city in the present 'tele-technological-capitalist' society is fundamentally flawed and incomplete. Their approach moves from Walter Benjamin, through the concepts of phantasmagoria and of media - as theorized also by Theodor Adorno, Siegfried Kracauer, and a new generation of contemporary critics - towards a new socio-critical and aesthetic analysis of the mediated space of the contemporary city.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46931433291927,"sku":"9781138601512","price":4068.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781138601512.webp?v=1771613382","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-architecture-of-phantasmagoria-specters-of-the-city-9781138601512","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}