Posted in books, reviews, tagged architecture, concrete, determinism, Mark Kingwell, mind/body problem, New York, Oedipus, Shanghai, totalitarianism, urbanism on December 4, 2008 | 3 Comments »
A review of Concrete Reveries: Consciousness and the City by Mark Kingwell. Viking Canada: 2008.
The latest book by noted philosopher and public intellectual Mark Kingwell is an unique examination at how the structure of the modern city moulds the conscience and its interactions within society, and likewise how the modern city can be represented as [...]
Posted in books, reviews, tagged Atmospheric Disturbances, Rivka Galchen on December 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
A review of Atmospheric Disturbances: A Novel, by Rivka Galchen. Harper Collins Canada, 2008.
This debut novel by Rivka Galchen opens with the realization by the middle-aged psychologist Leo Liebenstein that his wife Rema has been replaced by an identical double:
Last December a woman entered my apartment who looked exactly like my wife.
And so begins the [...]
