The Aerial Image: Vertigo, Transparency and Miniaturization

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Notes

¹ < http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2145305.stm> [08/04/2009]. Deyan Sudjic, ‘A Thoroughly Modernising Mayor’, The Observer, Sunday 8 July 2001, < www.guardian.co.uk/education/2001/jul/08/arts.highereducation> [08/04/2009].

² Norman Foster, Rebuilding the Reichstag (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999), p.111.

³ Gregg Lambert, The Return of the Baroque in Modern Culture (London and New York: Continuum, 2004), p.4.

⁴ < www.fosterandpartners.com/Projects/1027/Default.aspx> [08/04/2009]. Robert Booth, ‘Halls of Shame: Biggest CO2 Offenders Unveiled’, The Guardian, Thursday 2 October 2008, < www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/oct/02/carbonemissions.greenbuilding> [08/04/2009]. City Hall was rated E for carbon emissions on a scale of A to G, where A is the least polluting and G is the highest.

⁵ < www.fosterandpartners.com/Projects/0639/Default.aspx> [08/04/2009].

⁶ < www.inhabitat.com/2007/12/26/tallest-skyscraper-in-the-world-coming-to-moscow/> [08/04/2009]. < www.fosterandpartners.com/Projects/1496/Default.aspx> [08/04/2009]. < www.fosterandpartners.com/News/324/Default.aspx> [08/04/2009].

⁷ < http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2145305.stm> [08/04/2009].

⁸ Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975), p.7.

⁹ Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, p.13.

¹⁰ Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, p.14.

¹¹ Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Judgement (Oxford: Clarendon, 1978), p.109 (§27), 111 (§28).

¹² Simon Grimble, ‘Somewhere to Stand: Descriptive Writing and Cultural Criticism in Iain Sinclair's Lights Out for the Territory’, in Deterritorialisations … Revisioning Landscapes and Politics, eds Mark Dorrian and Gillian Rose (London: Black Dog Publishing, 2003), p.175.

¹³ Barbara Goodwin, ‘The Vertigo of Facts: Literary Accounts of a Philosophical Dilemma’, The British Journal of Aesthetics, 18:3 (1978), p.273.

¹⁴ W.G. Sebald, Vertigo (London: Vintage, 2002), p.8.

¹⁵ James Chandler, ‘About Loss: W.G. Sebald's Romantic Art of Memory’, The South Atlantic Quarterly, 102:1 (Winter 2003), p.245.

¹⁶ Dan Auiler, Vertigo: the Making of a Hitchcock Classic (London: Titan Books, 1999), p.30.

¹⁷ Claude Lévi-Strauss, The Savage Mind (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1972), p.23.

¹⁸ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras (London and Toronto: Heinemann, 1942), p.117.