1st Edition
The London Object Writing London at the End of Capitalism
By Grant Hamilton
Copyright 2021
152 Pages
by
Routledge
152 Pages
by
Routledge
152 Pages
by
Routledge
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Étienne Balibar writes that today we are at the end of capitalism. This is not because capitalism has run its course or has met an irresistible force, but because there can be no purer form of capitalism than the one we have today. Taking seriously the idea that this strain of capitalism has not only seized the urban environment but is the urban environment, works by Michael Moorcock, Iain... Read more
Introduction:
Writing London at the end of capitalism
Chapter 1:
Michael Moorcock’s Mother London and the viscous city
Chapter 2:
Iain Sinclair’s Downriver and the allure of the I-city
Chapter 3:
Penelope Lively’s City of the Mind and the simultaneous city
Chapter 4:
Peter Ackroyd’s Hawksmoor and the churches of absolute space
Chapter 5:
J. G. Ballard’s Crash and the seduction of objects
Conclusion:
The coordinates of an altermodernity
Biography
Grant Hamilton is Associate Professor of English Literature at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He teaches and researches in the areas of twentieth century world literatures in English and literary theory.
