商品簡介
"The City of the Senses is a timely contribution to understanding the `geography of labor' and its relation to the injustices facing working people across the globe. DeFazio opens our senses to make us more acutely aware of how capitalist relations of production eclipse human needs in the overwhelming panorama of consumption and greed we know as neoliberal capitalism. A precise and thorough undertaking that offers a materialist reading of social practices often relegated to the cultural realm--this is critical theory at its best." ---Nathalia E. Jaramillo, Purdue University, author of Immigration and the Challenge of Education
Offering an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to the city which opens up new ways of understanding urban culture and urban space, the author approaches the city as essentially a "material" place where people live, work, and participate in social practices within historical limits set not by sensory experience or cultural meanings but by material social conditions. Urban cultural theory, the book contends, needs to understand the human senses in the context of (imperceptible) material relations of production so as to take part in the struggle to transform them
作者簡介
Kimberly DeFazio teaches in the English Department at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. Her writings have appeared in such national and international journals as Nature, Society and Thought and Textual Practice, and in the forthcoming collection Confronting Universalities: Aesthetics and Politics under the Sign of Globalisation
