This study models the skyscraper as a complex network of actors and retraces its initial assemblage during the 19th century to its evolution into a smart structure from the mid-20th century onwards by looking at a great number of US-American novels...
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This study models the skyscraper as a complex network of actors and retraces its initial assemblage during the 19th century to its evolution into a smart structure from the mid-20th century onwards by looking at a great number of US-American novels and movies. It connects classic spatial theories with concepts and methods of ANT and Urban Studies.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-314) and index.
Cover -- Copyright information -- Contents -- Introduction: A Space of Extremes -- 1. The Skyscraper as a Hybrid Network of Hybrid Actors -- 1.1 Rethinking the Social and the City with Actor-Network Theory -- 1.2 Reassembling the Skyscraper as an Actor-Network -- 1.3 The Frontier in the Sky: The Skyscraper as Heterotopia -- 2. The Networks and Frontiers of the Skyscraper in Science Fiction and Modernist Literature of the 1900s to 1920s -- 2.1 Clerks into Cowboys, New Girls into 'True Women' -- the Skyscraper as a Frontier Space in the Early American Science Fiction Short Story 1898-1920
2.2 Following the Actors through the Modern High-Rise City in John Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer (1925) -- 3. Reconfiguring the Skyscraper in the Shadow of Smart Technologies from the 1950s onwards -- 3.1 From Discipline to Control: Making the Skyscraper Smart -- 3.2 Smart Antagonists: Tales of (Losing) Control -- 3.2.1 The Skyscraper as Antagonist and Smart Prison in late 20th and early 21st Century American Films and Novels -- 3.2.1.1 Cowboys on the Vertical Frontier -- The High-Rise Antagonist in the Disaster Action Movies The Towering Inferno (1974) and Die Hard (1988)
The Towering Inferno (1974) -- Die Hard (1988) -- 3.2.1.2 Damsels under Control? -- Escaping the Smart High-Rise Prison in the Neo-Noir Thrillers Scissors (1991) and Sliver (1993) -- Scissors (1991) -- Sliver (1993) -- 3.2.1.3 High-Rise Horror and the 'Bloxploitation' Genre 1970s-90s -- 3.2.2 Smooth Execut(ion)ers -- Architecture's Uncanny Collaboration in American Psycho (1991/2000) -- 3.2.3 Blasting Black Boxes -- Fight Club (1996/1999) as a Tale of Late-20th-Century Luddism -- 3.2.4 "There Is No Outside"? -- Mapping the Smart Spaces of Don DeLillo's Cosmopolis (2003) 178
Conclusion: Open and Closed Systems -- List of Figure -- List of Table -- Bibliography
