Vertical Imagination and the Crisis of Transatlantic Modernism, The Conceptual forgiveness as a political virtue

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Vertical Imagination and the Crisis of Transatlantic Modernism, The Conceptual forgiveness as a political virtueFrom the invention of skyscrapers and airplanes to the development of the nuclear bomb, ideas about the modern increasingly revolved around vertiginous images of elevation and decline and new technologies of mobility and terror from above. In The Vertical Imagination and the Crisis of Transatlantic Modernism, Paul Haacke examines this turn by focusing on discourses of aspiration, catastrophe, and power in major works of European and American