Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory

[Dave Monroe]

Can't find the passage now I really wanted, but ...

>From Norman M. Klein, The History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the
Erasure of Memory (London and New York: Verso, 1997):

Pt. I, Ch. 2, "L.A. Noir and Forgetting"

"... there are noir and apocalyptic scenarios that continually repeat
in literature, film and the visual arts from Los Angeles.  By the mid
sixties, they take on an increasingly disengaged spirit, like a
nightmare one watches through the windshield of a car." (p. 81)

Pt. V, Ch. 12, "Suburban Noir and Cyberspace"

"... in the chain of exurban extension, cyberspace is the next suburb.
 The best guided tour of suburban cyberspace is probably by architect
and critic William J. Mitchell ....  how 'asynchronous' it will be ...
with 'fragmented subjects who exist as collections of aliases and
agents.'  He could have been describing the imaginary L.A. freeway
circa 1970 ..." (p. 298)

http://www.versobooks.com/books/klm/k-titles/klein_los_angeles.shtml (2nd ed.)

http://books.google.com/books?id=eJwl5U37934C

Mitchell, William J.  City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn.
   Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996.

http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=4593

http://books.google.com/books?id=MxOgb9RWpKAC

First e-mail I ever sent was to Mitchell, about City of Bits ...