In 2003, Norman M. Klein's docufable »Bleeding Through« raised questions of urban aesthetics and memory as part of the multimedia documentary »Bleeding Through: Layers of Los Angeles, 1920–1986.« Now, 20 years later, this important text is reissued along with several essays addressing its central themes, such as the aesthetics and politics of urban memory, the development of Los Angeles since the 20th century, the role of urban imaginaries in US politics, or media evolution in the 21st century. The volume also features a long interview with Klein and two docufables from Klein's celebrated study »The History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory«, one being the kernel of the novella, the other imagining Walter Benjamin in L.A. Finally, the book contains links to two films featuring much of the multimedia material contained in the first edition.
2. Montage and Superposition: The Poetics and Politics of Urban Memory in Bleeding Through: Layers of Los Angeles, 1920–1986Seiten 57 - 96 Jens Martin Gurr Download Kapitel (PDF)
3. Spaces Between: Travelling Through Bleeds, Apertures and Wormholes Inside the Database NovelSeiten 97 - 116 Norman M. Klein Download Kapitel (PDF)
4. Los Angeles since the End of Molly''s Story: 1986–2021Seiten 117 - 140 Norman M. Klein Download Kapitel (PDF)
7. "The Morgue: Fifty Ways to Kill a Man"Seiten 163 - 166 Norman M. Klein Download Kapitel (PDF)
8. Absences, Scripted Spaces and the Urban Imaginary: Unlikely Models for the City in the Twenty-First CenturySeiten 167 - 176 Norman M. Klein Download Kapitel (PDF)
9. Interview with Norman M. Klein: Bleeding Through, Media Evolution, Walter Benjamin, and American Politics (May 27, 2022)Seiten 177 - 194 Jens Martin Gurr Download Kapitel (PDF)
