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When 20th-century French psychoanalyst and urban philosopher Michel de Certeau gazed down at Manhattan from the 110th floor of the World Trade Center, he was overcome by the city’s curves, its crests, its collisions of history. “To what erotics of knowledge does the ecstasy of reading such a cosmos belong?” he asked, presumably stroking his chin. “Having taken a voluptuous pleasure in it, I wonder what is the source of this pleasure of ‘seeing the whole,’ of looking down on, totalizing the most immoderate of human texts.”
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