Characterization of the Metropolitan Night The Spectacle of Electric Light at the late 19th century

The arrival of the electric light, in the late nineteenth century, transfigured the appearance of the cities at night turning them into a gigantic brilliant shop window. The spectacle of the urban nocturne intensified the phantasmagoria of the modern city, characterized by a double topography betwee...

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Autore principale: Caralt, David
Natura: Online
Lingua:spa
Pubblicazione: Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 2016
Accesso online:https://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/bitacora/article/view/56112
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Riassunto:The arrival of the electric light, in the late nineteenth century, transfigured the appearance of the cities at night turning them into a gigantic brilliant shop window. The spectacle of the urban nocturne intensified the phantasmagoria of the modern city, characterized by a double topography between darkness and lighting, fear and euphoria.The ground for the society of the spectacle was prepared with one of its key ingredients: the paralyzing devotion for the technological.