The vanishing map
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Word Count
35,500 words, Guess
Page Count
142 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL24052023M
- ISBN-139781845205102
- ISBN-101845205103
- OCLC Control Number68373359
- Library of Congress Control Number2006014742
Classifications
- DDC910.4
- LCCG465 .B37 2006
Description
"Stephen Barber takes the reader on an extraordinary journey from LA to Tokyo via Europe. He carries only a crumpled map in his pocket, a map which plots a horrifying past, a disappearing present and a future collapsing into banality. A virtual reality flight across this territory reveals the surfaces of things, a landscape made by war and technological advances. Coming back to earth and to his own body, Stephen Barber follows the map from city to city." "He discovers how cities, once densely layered with a civilisation's history of follies and obsessions, are increasingly oblivious places, accelerating the erasure of their own histories, forgetting themselves. Barber's journey becomes a profound meditation on the future of the city and the role of memory in our lives. The Vanishing Map explores what cities were, are and will be. Deeper than this, it questions how memory - personal, urban, national and global memory - can survive."--Jacket.
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