Malini Ranganathan et al., "Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City" (Cornell UP, 2023)
New Books in Critical Theory
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The Story of Corruption
The city is a key staging ground for these stories I think we really play with this term plot of course noted yourself so in one sense all the stories of corruption have plots like they take a bunch of events and turn them into a compelling story. Every corruption story takes place in space and time it's also about the literal plot occupied by an apartment building a skyscraper islam it's a plot of land. We organize the book along the lines of six major iconic common places which in literary studies is known as a topos which pluralist top boy to talk about how these these spaces provide the grounds for the invention of certain publics that want to defend these spaces or are trying to somehow use
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