Racing the Street

Race, Rhetoric, and Technology in Metropolitan London, 1840-1900

AvRobert J. Topinka

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

Del 3 i serien Rhetoric & Public Culture: History, Theory, Critique

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Racing the Street traces the history of how race was used as a technology for gathering, assembling, and networking the early cosmopolitan city. Drawing on an archive that ranges from engineering blueprints and parliamentary committee reports to sensationalistic pamphlets and periodical press accounts, Robert J. Topinka conducts an original genealogy of the nineteenth-century London street, demonstrating how race as a technology gathers, sorts, and assembles the teeming particularities of the street into a manageable network. This interdisciplinary study offers a novel approach to the intersections of race, rhetoric, media, technology, and urban government.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-08-18
Mått:152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt:318 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Rhetoric & Public Culture: History, Theory, Critique
Antal sidor:196
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520343610

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Robert J. Topinka is Lecturer in Transnational Media and Cultural Studies at Birkbeck, University of London and recipient of an Arts and Humanities Research Council grant for the project, “Politics, Ideology, and Rhetoric in the 21st Century: The Case of the Alt-Right.”

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"An intriguing text that reveals what thinking about race and new materialism in the context of nineteenth-century London can do for contemporary rhetorical scholars."

Innehållsförteckning

List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction A Genealogy of Race as Technology1. Sublime Streets, Savage City Metonymy, the Manifold, and the Aesthetics of Governance2. Sewers, Streets, and SeasTypes and Technologies in Imperial London3. Moving Congestion on Petticoat Lane Slums, Markets, and Immigrant Crowds, 1840–18904. Typical Bodies, Photographic TechnologiesRace, the Face, and Animated DaguerreotypesEpilogue Catachresis, Cliché, and the Legacy of RaceNotes Bibliography Index