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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Introduction
  8. Part 1. Spectro-Capital
    1. 1. Specters and Spectral Economy
    2. 2. Hell Money: Value Across the Paper Horizon
    3. 3. Spectro-Commodities
  9. Part 2. The City and Ghostly Ecology
    1. 4. Ghosts in the Garden
    2. 5. Apparition and Insecure Space
    3. 6. Unreal Estate: Building Sites and Spirit Fields
    4. Conclusion: Ghost-Modernism?
  10. Notes
  11. Notes — Continued (2 of 2)
  12. Index
  13. Author Biography

Author Biography

Joshua Comaroff is an architectural designer, urban geographer, and assistant professor in the Department of Architecture at National University of Singapore. He is coauthor of Horror in Architecture: The Reanimated Edition (Minnesota, 2024).

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The University of Minnesota Press gratefully acknowledges the generous assistance provided for the publication of this book by the National University of Singapore.

Cover design by La Bang Studio
Cover photograph copyright KHOOGJ

Copyright 2025 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota

Spectropolis: The Enchantment of Capital in Singapore by Joshua Comaroff is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
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