The Urbanization of Culture: BCN-MAD from Modernity to Postmodernity

The way you live is the way you represent reality, David Harvey argued in The Urban Experience (1989). Any change in aesthetics, he continued, it should therefore imply a change in the perception of space leading to what Harvey described as the urbanization of consciousness. Playing out of this concept, this class will examine the ways by which two Iberian cities (Barcelona and Madrid) have been both represented and re-imagined in contemporary culture through novels, film, painting and photography.