{"product_id":"9781784781576","title":"Capital: New York, Capital of the 20th Century","description":"\u003cb\u003eAcclaimed artist Kenneth Goldsmith’s thousand-page homage to New York City\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere is a kaleidoscopic assemblage and poetic history of New York: an unparalleled and original homage to the city, composed entirely of quotations. Drawn from a huge array of sources—histories, memoirs, newspaper articles, novels, government documents, emails—and organized into interpretive categories that reveal the philosophical architecture of the city, \u003ci\u003eCapital\u003c\/i\u003e is the ne plus ultra of books on the ultimate megalopolis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is also a book of experimental literature that transposes Walter Benjamin’s unfinished magnum opus of literary montage on the modern city, \u003ci\u003eThe Arcades Project\u003c\/i\u003e, from nineteenth-century Paris to twentieth-century New York, bringing the streets and its inhabitants to life in categories such as “Sex,” “Central Park,” “Commodity,” “Loneliness,” “Gentrification,” “Advertising,” and “Mapplethorpe.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCapital\u003c\/i\u003e is a book designed to fascinate and to fail—for can a megalopolis truly ever be captured in words? Can a history, no matter how extensive, ever be comprehensive? Each reading of this book, and of New York, is a unique and impossible project.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Trade Paperback edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47184907829488,"sku":"9781784781576","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781784781576_p0.jpg?v=1763727201","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781784781576","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}