Dunn, N., Khanova, P., 2024.

Dark Matters: Manifesto of the Night City

British urbanist and cultural theorist Nick Dunn explores the space of the city at night, where the relations between reality and imagination, subject and object, melt away, replaced by the eerie and fluid materiality of poorly digested urban problems, materials, contradictions, clashes and architectures. Darkness here becomes an active force, transforming the routine, the familiar and the daytime into a rich palimpsest that unfolds in a string of ghosts past, present and future. If the maxim of late liberalism, trying to "illuminate" the night landscape, is that at any time of day we should perceive the city as something unproblematic and seamless for our purposes and movements, then this book is an invitation to take a wrong turn.