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Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
Published: 01 September 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059189-013
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5918-9
... If the Ferris wheel shows the way the wheels of capitalism turned ever faster as it ratcheted down violence and reinforced the desires of the market, Tatlin’s Tower could be said to be an attempt to do the reverse. Anchored to a Russian Constructivist vision of modernity in which science meets...
Published: 01 January 1986
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9855-4
Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
Published: 01 September 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059189-011
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5918-9
... and on to the Eiffel Tower, monumental works of modernity are employed in this chapter, and the following chapters, to plot the development of this new world of market-based rationality, knowledge, and power. division of labor bored Dasein Joseph Paxton Lilly House Exposition Universelle ...
Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
Published: 01 September 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059189-012
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5918-9
... The move from the Eiffel Tower to the Ferris wheel monumentalizes not only the shift of modernity from Europe to America, but also the shift away from a capitalist system based purely on utility. The Ferris wheel shows how markets capture and calculate fun. While it failed to achieve the iconic...
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By Michael Dutton
Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
Published: 01 September 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5918-9
... Eiffel Tower Ferris Wheel assembly line culture industry decalcomania ...
Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
Published: 01 September 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5918-9
... Palace and on to the Eiffel Tower, monumental works of modernity are employed in this chapter, and the following chapters, to plot the development of this new world of market-based rationality, knowledge, and power. division of labor bored Dasein Joseph Paxton Lilly House Exposition Universelle...