Dec 26, 2016
“attempting...to define the peculiar nature of the modern in their century, to capture what was singular about what they would have seen as their shared place and time” (xv)
Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 1821 Ed Ruscha, Every Building on Sunset Strip, 1966 Laura Oldfield Ford, Savage Messiah, 2005-09
Walter Benjamin, One-Way Street, 1928 Louis Aragon, Paris Peasant, 1926 Walter Ruttman, Weekend, 1930 Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia, 1951 Gilles Ivain, ‘Formulary for a new Urbanism’, 1958 Google Trends Hedonometer.org We Feel Fine