"Horizontal Vertigo: the title refers to the fear of ever-impending earthquakes, which led Mexicans to build their capital city outward rather than upward. With the perspicacity of a keenly observant flaneur, Villoro wanders through the city seemingly without a plan, describing people, places, and things, while brilliantly drawing connections among them, the better to reveal, in all its multitudinous glory, the vicissitudes and triumphs of Mexico City's cultural, political, and social history: from indigenous antiquity to the Aztec period, from the Spanish conquest to Mexico City today, one of…mehr
"Horizontal Vertigo: the title refers to the fear of ever-impending earthquakes, which led Mexicans to build their capital city outward rather than upward. With the perspicacity of a keenly observant flaneur, Villoro wanders through the city seemingly without a plan, describing people, places, and things, while brilliantly drawing connections among them, the better to reveal, in all its multitudinous glory, the vicissitudes and triumphs of Mexico City's cultural, political, and social history: from indigenous antiquity to the Aztec period, from the Spanish conquest to Mexico City today, one of the world's leading cultural and financial centers. In his deeply iconoclastic book, Villoro organizes his text around a recurring series of chapter titles: 'Living in the City,' 'City Characters,' 'Shocks, Crossings, and Ceremonies.' What he achieves, miraculously, is a stunning, intriguingly coherent meditation on Mexico City's genius loci, its spirit of place"
Prologue: Making an Agglomeration Look Like a City by Néstor García Canclini ix Entry into the Labyrinth: Chaos Is Not Something You Improvise 3 Living in the City: “If You See Juan . . .” 12 City Characters: El Chilango 20 Shocks: How Many of Us Are There? 26 Crossings: Memory Atlas 29 Living in the City: The Child Heroes (Los Niños Héroes) 37 Ceremonies: The Shout (El Grito) 46 La Independencia, S.A. de C.V. 51 Places: The Back Patio (La Zotehuela) 54 Living in the City: Oblivion 57 Ceremonies: Coffee with the Poets 61 City Characters: El Merenguero 74 Shocks: Street Children 77 Places: The Mausoleums of the Heroes 98 City Characters: The Manager 108 Crossings: From Eye Candy to Moctezuma’s Revenge 112 Ceremonies: “Do Good Without Staring at the Blonde”: Wrestling Movies 119 Places: Public Government Ministry 127 Living in the City: My Grandmother’s Outing 131 Places: Tepito, El Chopo, and Other Informalities 144 City Characters: Paquita la del Barrio 155 Ceremonies: The Virgin of Transit 160 Living in the City: The Conscript 163 City Characters: The King of Coyoacán 179 Ceremonies: The Bureaucracy of Mexico City—Giving and Receiving 182 Places: Fairs, Theme Parks, Children City 188 Places: A Square Meter of the Nation 200 Ceremonies: How Does the City Decorate Itself? From the Foundational Image to Garbage as Ornament 203 Crossings: Extraterrestrials in the Capital 215 Shocks: A Car on the Pyramid 221 Places: The Meeting Place 226 Living in the City: Rain Soup 230 City Characters: The Tire Repair Man 234 Ceremonies: The Passion of Iztapalapa 239 Shocks: The Anxiety of Influenza—Diary of an Epidemic 245 City Characters: The Quack 259 Places: Santo Domingo 263 Shocks: The Disappearance of the Sky 276 Crossings: The City Is the Sky of the Metro 281 City Characters: The Zombie 287 Shocks: The New Meat 291 City Living: The Political Illusion 294 Ceremonies: The Security Book 316 City Characters: The Sewer Cleaner 320 Shocks: The Earthquake: “Stones of This Land Are Not Native to It” 324 Ceremonies: The Aftershock, a Postscript to Fear 341
Prologue: Making an Agglomeration Look Like a City by Néstor García Canclini ix Entry into the Labyrinth: Chaos Is Not Something You Improvise 3 Living in the City: “If You See Juan . . .” 12 City Characters: El Chilango 20 Shocks: How Many of Us Are There? 26 Crossings: Memory Atlas 29 Living in the City: The Child Heroes (Los Niños Héroes) 37 Ceremonies: The Shout (El Grito) 46 La Independencia, S.A. de C.V. 51 Places: The Back Patio (La Zotehuela) 54 Living in the City: Oblivion 57 Ceremonies: Coffee with the Poets 61 City Characters: El Merenguero 74 Shocks: Street Children 77 Places: The Mausoleums of the Heroes 98 City Characters: The Manager 108 Crossings: From Eye Candy to Moctezuma’s Revenge 112 Ceremonies: “Do Good Without Staring at the Blonde”: Wrestling Movies 119 Places: Public Government Ministry 127 Living in the City: My Grandmother’s Outing 131 Places: Tepito, El Chopo, and Other Informalities 144 City Characters: Paquita la del Barrio 155 Ceremonies: The Virgin of Transit 160 Living in the City: The Conscript 163 City Characters: The King of Coyoacán 179 Ceremonies: The Bureaucracy of Mexico City—Giving and Receiving 182 Places: Fairs, Theme Parks, Children City 188 Places: A Square Meter of the Nation 200 Ceremonies: How Does the City Decorate Itself? From the Foundational Image to Garbage as Ornament 203 Crossings: Extraterrestrials in the Capital 215 Shocks: A Car on the Pyramid 221 Places: The Meeting Place 226 Living in the City: Rain Soup 230 City Characters: The Tire Repair Man 234 Ceremonies: The Passion of Iztapalapa 239 Shocks: The Anxiety of Influenza—Diary of an Epidemic 245 City Characters: The Quack 259 Places: Santo Domingo 263 Shocks: The Disappearance of the Sky 276 Crossings: The City Is the Sky of the Metro 281 City Characters: The Zombie 287 Shocks: The New Meat 291 City Living: The Political Illusion 294 Ceremonies: The Security Book 316 City Characters: The Sewer Cleaner 320 Shocks: The Earthquake: “Stones of This Land Are Not Native to It” 324 Ceremonies: The Aftershock, a Postscript to Fear 341
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