Shiben Banerji

Lineages of the Global City

Occult Modernism and the Spiritualization of Democracy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The forgotten history of the occult foundations of the early twentieth-century global city.

Produktdetails

• Lateral Exchanges: Architecture, Urban Development, and Transnational Practices
• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 182mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 892g
• ISBN-13: 9781477331408
• ISBN-10: 1477331409
• Artikelnr.: 71928542

Autorenporträt

Shiben Banerji is an associate professor in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Inhaltsangabe

* Prologue
* Chapter 1. Summoning Global Subjects: A Methodological Note
* Chapter 2. Unifying Science, 1905–1913: De Bazel’s World Capital and
Andersen’s World-Centre
* Chapter 3. Financializing Debt, 1927–1933: Otlet and Le Corbusier’s
CitÉ Mondiale
* Chapter 4. Saving Empire, 1924–1933: Besant’s World-Empire
* Chapter 5. Conserving Nature, 1920–1935: Griffin’s Castlecrag
* Chapter 6. Globalizing Democracy, 1938–1949: Mahony’s Magic of
America
* Epilogue
* Acknowledgments
* Notes
* Index