a•poc•a•lypse (ἀποκάλυψις) – Greek word meaning “revelation,” “an unveiling or unfolding of things not previously known and which could not be known apart from the unveiling.”
There is perhaps no greater testament to human accomplishment than the city. Serving as the pinnacle of human progress, nothing signifies the expansion of man’s collective knowledge, power and control like the modern urban metropolis. But a growing number are suggesting that something much darker lurks in the shadows of those sleek and stately high-rises, a force that, according to one French philosopher, is “capable of directing and changing a man’s spiritual life.”
Necropolis offers a concise but compelling history of urban industrialism, from its ancient origins to the technological “megamachine” of today, drawing from the contributions of numerous scholars to unveil a terrifying portrait of a system whose chief function is the transformation of its inhabitants, an “invisible immortality project whose normal outgrowth [is] human godhood” and its inevitable consequences.
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