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From: Sarah E. Chinn <sarah.chinn@hunter.cuny.edu>
List Editor: "Hellen Lee-Keller, List Editor for H-Amstdy" <hlk@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Editor's Subject: ANN: NYMASA Salon Talk TODAY
Author's Subject: ANN: NYMASA Salon Talk TODAY
Date Written: Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 7:14 AM
Date Posted: Fri, 05 Nov 2009 13:58:05 -0500


The New York Metro American Studies Association (NYMASA) is pleased to
present our second Salon Talk of the semester

Thursday, November 5th at 7:30
Faculty/Staff Lounge
8th Floor, West Building
Hunter College
Lexington Avenue at 68th STreet

Paula Geyh (Yeshiva University)
_Cities, Citizens and Technologies: Urban Life and Postmodernity_
(Routledge, 2009)

This book is about the contemporary city and those who live in it. It
is thus also about the urban world of the era (extending roughly from
the 1960s to the present) that we see as postmodern, and specifically
about how the postmodern city is changing under the impact of
globalization and new information and communication technologies. In
particular, Geyh explores how the urban spaces of postmodernity
(parks, plazas, streets, sidewalks) and postmodern urban
subjectivities and communities respond to and create each other--how
they become mutually constructing. While there is much in this book
about what makes a city "postmodern," its primary focus is on how the
postmodern city is experienced by its inhabitants, and in this respect
the book is also a study of everyday life in the postmodern era. As
such, it deals not only with the ways in which the postmodern city has
developed out of economic, technological, political, and cultural
structures that are different from those of  the modern city, but also
with how the postmodern city changes our ways of knowing and
experiencing the world and ourselves as postmodern urban subjects, as
citizens of postmodernity.

 Salon Talks are an opportunity for local American Studies scholars to
share their published work with an intimate audience. They tend to be
small, lively, and informative. Refreshments will be served.

Space is limited; to rsvp and for more information, contact Sarah
Chinn at sarah.chinn@hunter.cuny.edu.


Sarah E. Chinn
English Department
Hunter College, CUNY
sarah.chinn@hunter.cuny.edu

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