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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction -- Culture, control, critique. Cultural critique from the Frankfurt School until today -- Formalism, allegory, totality. Allegory and representation -- Allegory and the present -- Space, allegory, control. Spatial preoccupations -- Celebrating ruins: The drowned world, The drought, The crystal world -- Filling the gaps: Crash, Concrete island, High rise -- Coming into allegory: Cocaine nights, Super-Cannes, Millennium people, Kingdom come -- Totalities, allegories and revolutions -- Cultural critique and form -- Time, allegory, control. Timely preoccupations -- In and out of time: "Chronopolis" and in time -- Cultural critique and form -- Vision, allegory, control. Visual preoccupations -- bread and circuses: The hunger games -- Cultural critique and form -- Conclusion