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City of Quartz
- Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
- De: Mike Davis
- Narrado por: Tim Campbell
- Duración: 15 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 162
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 127
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 126
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.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A People’s History of Los Angeles
- De J. Briggs en 08-03-18
- City of Quartz
- Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
- De: Mike Davis
- Narrado por: Tim Campbell
Carefully elaborates LA in historical character
Revisado: 02-06-21
LA is presented as not a given, but as social relations made, unmade and remade in historical time, choices made by individual and group actors yes, but under conditions they ultimately didn't choose.
The metaphor of noir ties in nicely with the felt inexorability of political, social, and geographical upheavals and conflicts given the broader context of forces and relations in motion. Yet, despite this, Davis gives a sense of rebellion even in its most cynical and nihilistic forms as a creative as well as creatively destructive force. The contending classes may end in ruin but not without a fight.
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