Mortal City -9781568980461

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Each and every individual in the global community is both spectator andparticipant in urban carnage: responsible both for the internationaladministration of violence and its profitable documentation for worldmarket consumption. – Peter LangUrban violence increasingly dominates our day-to-day existence: we watchfootage of the earthquake in Japan, the bombing of Chechnya, the war inBosnia – and not so long ago, the same year that war broke out in Bosnia, we watched the horror of the Los Angeles riots. As events in Sarajevo andLos Angeles demonstrate, these crises continue without immanentresolutions. The very definitions of the city and of violence areconstantly being revised: the city is no longer a fixed site but hashemorrhaged across real and imagined space; while violence has movedbeyond the traditional arenas of social conflict to pervade daily life.Mortal City, published with StoreFront for Art and Architecture, probes the polemical nature of urban violence. The essays present severaldifferent approaches to the subject, reflecting the most recenthistorical, geographical, and theoretical developments in these fields.