The Speculative City: Art, Real Estate, and the Making of Global Los Angeles, by Susanna Phillips Newbury

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1 For example, Rachel Armstrong, “Speculative Science,” Architectural League of New York, February 24, 2014, https://archleague.org/article/speculative-science/; Frank Palmeri, “In Praise of Speculative History,” Chronicle of Higher Education, July 10, 2016, https://www.chronicle.com/article/in-praise-of-speculative-history/; Giovanni Aloi, Speculative Taxidermy: Natural History, Animal Surfaces, and Art in the Anthropocene (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018).

2 Nizan Shaked, Museums and Wealth: The Politics of Contemporary Art Collections (London: Bloomsbury, 2022); Sam Lefebvre, A Generous Grift: Museums, Finance Capital, and the Clash of Cultural Workers and Collector-Trustees (San Francisco: The Lab, 2022) https://www.thelab.org/a-generous-grift-museums-finance-cultural-workers.

3 Samuel Stein, Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State (London: Verso, 2019).

4 Cecilia L. Chu and Shenjing He, eds., The Speculative City: Emergent Forms and Norms of the Built Environment (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022).

5 Mike Davis, City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (London: Verso, 1990); Eric Avila, Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004); Edward Soja, Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory (London: Verso, 1989). On the Los Angeles School, see Michael J. Dear and Steven Flusty, “Postmodern Urbanism,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 90, no. 1: 50–72.

6 David Joselit, Feedback: Television against Democracy (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007).

7 On remediation, Newbury cites Jay Bolter and Richard Grusin, Remediation: Understanding New Media (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999).

8 Eyal Weizman, Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability (New York: Zone Books, 2017).

9 See FORENSIS, an exhibition and conference organized by Forensic Architecture and held at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in 2014, https://forensic-architecture.org/programme/exhibitions/forensis.

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Patricia A. Morton

PATRICIA A. MORTON is president of the Society of Architectural Historians and associate professor of architectural history at the University of California, Riverside [900 University Avenue, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521].