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Transnational Muscle Cars


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Transnational Muscle Cars provides a withering critique of how it is that consumption, buying (into) something, buying anything, has become the prime mover in a transient global urbanism that now defines our everyday lives.

Written over the past ten years in a quartet of cities--Calgary, Toronto, New York and Vienna--Transnational Muscle Cars is the second book in Jeff Derksen's trilogy addressing place, culture and capital, and draws on a wide array of North American post-war poetics--the declarative aspects of New American Poetry, the pop cultural details of the New York School, the reflexive politics of the Language Poets, the personal politics of the Kootenay School of Writing--and on contemporary cultural and political theory, critical geography, urban theory, and architectural concepts.

Whereas the first book in this trilogy, Dwell, tried to work out a poetics of place still tied to questions of national culture, Transnational Muscle Cars rescales these questions. Moving from the national to the global-urban, it draws on a wide range of cultural references, from Keanu Reeves to the Russian Constructivists, from the Gap to inflatable architecture.

While the politics of poetic form is still a key aspect of Derksen's work, geography has overtaken language as its central focus. What are the politics of this new cultural landscape? And how do you drive across it? And why does this new imperialism behave so much like a classic muscle car--all brawn and horsepower, but with little braking power and an inability to negotiate curves?


About the Author: Jeff Derksen
Jeff Derksen's poetry and critical writing on art, urbanism and text have been published in Europe and North America. He collaborates on visual art and research projects (focusing on urban issues) with the research collective Urban Subjects. Derksen's Down Time won the 1991 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Award, at the BC Book Prizes.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780889224735
  • Publisher: Talonbooks
  • Publisher Imprint: Talonbooks
  • Depth: 13
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 10 mm
  • Width: 121 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0889224730
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jun 2003
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 198 mm
  • No of Pages: 128
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 190 gr


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