Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory

[Dave Monroe]

New and fully updated version
A History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory
By Norman M. Klein

Publication
June 1997
2nd Edn. : August 2008
352 pages
8 b/w photos

Cloth
ISBN-13: 978 1 84467 241 7
US$110 / £60 / CAN$121

Paper
ISBN-13: 978 1 84467 242 2
US$24.95 / £12.99 / CAN$27.50

Analysis, photography and fiction combine in a bracing portrait of LA

Los Angeles is a city which has long thrived on the continual
re-creation of own myth. In this extraordinary and original work,
Norman Klein examines the process of memory erasure in LA. Using a
provocative mixture of fact and fiction, the book takes us on an
“anti-tour” of downtown LA, examines life for Vietnamese immigrants in
the City of Dreams, imagines Walter Benjamin as a Los Angeleno, and
finally looks at the way information technology has recreated the
city, turning cyberspace into the last suburb.

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