{"product_id":"a-landscape-of-events-writing-architecture-9780262720342","title":"A Landscape of Events (Writing Architecture)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Landscape of Events (Writing Architecture)\u003c\/strong\u003e by Virilio, Paul. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780262720342.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction by Bernard Tschumi. In A Landscape of Events, the celebrated French architect, urban planner, and philosopher Paul Virilio focuses on the cultural chaos of the 1980s and 1990s. It was a time, he writes, that reflected the \"cruelty of an epoch, the hills and dales of daily life, the usual clumps of habits and commonplaces.\"Urban disorientation, the machines of war, and the acceleration of events in contemporary life are Virilios ongoing concerns. He explores them in events ranging from media coverage of the Gulf War to urban rioting and lawlessness. Some will see Virilio as a pessimist discouraged by \"the acceleration of the reality of time,\" while others will find his recording of \"atypical events\" to be clairvoyant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44989723115573,"sku":"ByrdShop_0262720345","price":90.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780262720342_7634043b-f844-4337-a38c-fee090b9f7bf.jpg?v=1778634905","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/a-landscape-of-events-writing-architecture-9780262720342","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}