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There are few political thinkers writing today who can bear the burden of breadth that an aesthetically sensitive mode of political theorizing demands. Michael Shapiro is exemplary amongst them. In The Time of the City, Shapiros bold bricolages take center stage by re-energizing our lethargic political methodologies and infusing them with a perspicuous attention to the aesthetic modes of association and dissociation in democratic life. This is not simply a work that anyone interested in film, urban politics, race studies, and cultural and democratic theory must read; it is a book they will want to read over and over again.

Davide Panagia, Co-Editor, Theory & Event and Canada Research
Chair in Cultural Studies, Trent University, Canada

Starting with his brilliant insights on Berlins new status as the cultural capital of Western Europe, Shapiro masterfully cuts across conventional disciplinary boundaries and reflects on diverse artistic genres as he exposes his readers to the crucial global-local dynamics of the contemporary urban experience.

Manfred B. Steger, Professor of Global Studies and Director
of the Globalism Research Centre, Royal Melbourne
Institute of Technology, Australia

Film is becoming for real as its techniques are transferred into the city and the city becomes understood through its techniques. Shapiro understands this complex inter-play as a way of rethinking the political and method at one and the same time, thereby producing a new means of studying film and the city and an indispensable book for urbanists, political scientists, and scholars of film.

Nigel Thrift, Vice-Chancellor, Warwick University, UK

As attuned to the spatial as it is to the temporal, and as theoretically sophisticated as it is politically relevant, this is a powerful and intriguing meditation on cities of the page, the screen and the moment.

Stuart Elden, Professor of Political Geography,
Durham University, UK

The Time of the City

The Time of the City is a trans-disciplinary work with a focus on genre-city relationships as they articulate the micropolitics of urban life in diverse cities. Shifting the territorial emphasis of political studies from the mosaic of states to the global network of cities, the book draws on urban theory rather than traditional forms of official city politics. Deriving their methodological approaches from aspects of urban theory and philosophies of aesthetics, the chapters deploy concepts from philosophy, political theory, literary studies, cinema studies, poetics and aesthetic theory on diverse cities, among which are Berlin, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia and Washington, DC.

Investigating a wide variety of urban formations, and developing a geophilosophy appropriate to urban space, this multi genre approach to urban life provides stunning insights into the micropolitics of ethnicity, identity, security, subjectivity and sovereignty.

Michael J. Shapiro is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawaii. Among his publications are Methods and Nations: Cultural Governance and the Indigenous Subject (2004), Deforming American Political Thought: Ethnicity, Facticity, and Genre (2006) and Cinematic Geopolitics (2009).

Interventions

Edited by: Jenny Edkins, Aberystwyth University and Nick Vaughan-Williams, University of Exeter

As Michel Foucault has famously stated, knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting. In this spirit The Edkins Vaughan-Williams Interventions series solicits cutting edge, critical works that challenge mainstream understandings in international relations. It is the best place to contribute post disciplinary works that think rather than merely recognize and affirm the world recycled in IRs traditional geopolitical imaginary.

Michael J. Shapiro, University of Hawaii at Mnoa, USA

The series aims to advance understanding of the key areas in which scholars working within broad critical post-structural and post-colonial traditions have chosen to make their interventions, and to present innovative analyses of important topics.

Titles in the series engage with critical thinkers in philosophy, sociology, politics and other disciplines and provide situated historical, empirical and textual studies in international politics.

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The Time of the City: politics, philosophy, and genre

Michael J. Shapiro

The Time of the City

Politics, philosophy and genre

Michael J. Shapiro

LONDON AND NEW YORK

First published 2010
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
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2010 Michael J. Shapiro

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced
or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means,
now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording,
or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Shapiro, Michael J.
The time of the city : politics, philosophy, and genre / Michael J. Shapiro.
p. cm. (Interventions)
1. Cities and townsCase studies. 2. Sociology, UrbanCase studies.
3. Urban geographyCase studies. I. Title.
HT151.S454 2009
307.76dc22
2009043665

ISBN 0-203-85261-3 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN: 9780415780520 (hbk)

ISBN: 9780415780537 (pbk)

ISBN: 9780203852613 (ebk)

This book is dedicated to my wife and cinema and city companion, Hannah Tavares, to whom I am grateful for sharing her love, her dedication to critical inquiry, her extraordinary compassion, and her surpassing sensitivity to the politics of everyday life.

Contents

List of illustrations

1.1	Easy walking toward the bar (courtesy Sony Pictures)
1.2	Easy and Mr. Giacomo
1.3	Easy on the Malibu Pier
1.4	Easy approaching Todd Carters mansion
1.5	Easy back in his neighborhood
1.6	Baltic surveillance (courtesy Miramax)
1.7

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