{"product_id":"9780948462665","title":"Fragments of the European City (Topographics Series)","description":"\u003cbr\u003eThis book explores the visual transformation of the contemporary European city, focusing on the most emblematic and visibly wounded of all European cities – Berlin.\u003cp\u003eTaking as its subject the \"intricately assembled, relentlessly disassembling metropolitan screen\", it charts the virulent implosions of culture, the distortions and violence that give city-living its fractured and hallucinatory quality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProvocatively written as a series of inter-locking poetic fragments, the text evokes the formation of metropolitan \"identity\" as it ricochets between the physical surface of the city and the vulnerable but manipulating consciousness of city dwellers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBarber has discovered a powerful new vocabulary – a vocabulary charged with the visual and sonic impact of the cinema. Like the city, the text pulsates, creatively chaotic, raw and exhilarating.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Reaktion Books, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47023652471024,"sku":"9780948462665","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780948462665_p0.jpg?v=1763880133","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780948462665","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}