Cities of Everyday Life
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The Cities of Everyday Life carries within it an argument to take the urban seriously. Globalisation, with its mixture of enforced commodification, spatial transformations and urban ruin, excavated the city from margins of academic and literary writing to a new public discourse that suddenly assumed the given-ness of urban space. As elites quarrelled over pollution and decay of public order, new fusions were taking place between the media and the fabric of urban life.
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“The work is deeply felt – Bernstein has been there and brought it back. Bernstein is a writer.” – William S. Burroughs
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At the crossroads of literary conceits and cultural attitude lurks one of its main perpetrators. In this collection ofodds and ends, we are given the fallable flesh and blood that lies behind all Acker’s cultural mugging. Thesefictional experiments are eminently readable because they remain human, just as they go willfully oblique.Gertrude Stein, Burroughs, and Barbara Cartland fight it out for Acker’s seamy post-punk soul.
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“Like a set of etudes, Star Black’s sonnet sequence examines the technical problems of increasing difficulty that each day presents us with. Fluently and gracefully, she charts the amazing course of the quotidien.” John Ashberry
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