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Sto caricando le informazioni... London's Overthrow (edizione 2012)di China Miéville
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This man writes a polemic like a surrealist poem - brilliant. ( ) A small format, 83 page essay. Many of the pages contain atmospheric (i.e. blurred) photographs of nighttime London. I think this avowedly left-wing author got a little over-excited about the 2011 London riots and the 2011 Occupy London movement, and this travelogue is the result. In the end, the apocalypse failed to happen. This small book takes the usual bits about neoliberalism, gentrification, budget cuts and its effects in the different social classes and presents it in a very immediate manner. It brings those issues closer to the "commoner" Form follows content nicely here, with the home made pictures interleaved with the text. A polemic essay, a snapshot of London in 2011; the aftermath of riots, a precursor to the Olympics and right in the middle of harsh austerity cuts. It is of course beautifully written and interspersed with delightfully murky and often blurred snapshots of London. This is an era of CGI end-times porn, but London’s destructions, dreamed-up and real, started a long time ago. It’s been drowned, ruined by war, overgrown, burned up, split in two, filled with hungry dead. Endlessly emptied. A book for hard core Mieville fans only, as it’s a very pricey essay and one you can find on the internet. Although I would seek it out there, unless of course your politics leans hard right. Those who have never set foot in London will still get the gist, this books speaks of the universal city and is soaked in familiar politics. Of course you can also just admire this poetic plea.
London’s Overthrow is a potent polemic describing the capital in a time of austerity at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Award-winning author and essayist China Miéville cuts through the hyperbole of our politicians to present a view from ordinary London of the inequality, oppression and indignity and the hidden, subversive sentiment pervading throughout our streets. China Miéville does more than reveal the skull beneath the London’s scabby, piebald skin; he offers effervescent nourishment for the downpressed souls that stalk the streets of his divided city. Anybody who wants to know what has happened here in the ground zero of a failed neoliberal experiment must start with his unsettling panorama.’ Paul Gilroy Miéville gives us a vision of a pre-apocalyptic London, where the chasm between rich and poor has reached catastrophic levels and anger is the only reasonable response.’ Hari Kunzru Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)942.108612History and Geography Europe England and Wales London Historical periods; Modified standard subdvisions of London 1837- 2000-Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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