Phantasmagoria, Modernity, and the City. Urban Modernity and the Politics of Historical Memory -- Specters and Fetishism -- Phantasmagoria and Gesamtkunstwerk, Excursus I: The Specters of Baron Haussmann -- Media, Technology, and Modern Experience. Walter Benjamin and Media Theory -- From Aisthesis to Anaesthetics -- Poverty of Experience and the Architecture of City -- Spectacle and Phantasmagoria. The Ghosts of Guy Debord -- Spectacle Critique and Architectural Theory -- From Spectacle to Phantasmagoria, Excursus II: The Architecture of Phantasmagoria -- The Architecture of Phantasmagoria and the Contemporary City. Virtual Technology, Apparatus, and Anaesthetics -- The Phantoms of Architectural Theory -- The City as Phantasmagoria of the World Interior -- Epilogue: Specters of the city and the Critique of Ideology