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Employing a mixture of fact, half-truth and fiction, Klein takes readers on an 'anti-tour' of downtown LA- Investigating the life of Vietnamese immigrants, imagining Walter Benjamin as a Los Angeleno, and looking at the way information technology has re-created the city - turning cyberspace into the last suburb.DARK HORSEY SAYS- The history of a towen that vaunts a mind on 'permanent erase' (as a key to continual re-creation). Asian cultures in Los Angeles, an imagined Los Angeleno Walter Benjamin, TV as the 'mind' of Los Angeles. Etc. |