Summary of Mike Davis's City of Quartz

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 To call Los Angeles an intellectual capital is to imply that it is fertile cultural soil that cannot produce any homegrown intellectuals. However, this is not entirely true. Los Angeles has become the world capital of an immense Culture Industry that has imported countless talented writers, filmmakers, artists, and visionaries. #2 Los Angeles has been a site of both massive subordination of intellectuals to th