Dark Writing

Geography, Performance, Design

von Paul Carter

328 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

We do not see empty figures and outlines; we do not move in straight lines. Everywhere we are surrounded by dapple; the geometry of our embodied lives is curviform, meandering, bi-pedal. Our personal worlds are timed, inter-positional, and contingent. But nowhere in the language of cartography and design do these ordinary experiences appear. This, ""Dark Writing"" argues, is a serious omission because they are designs on the world: architects and colonizers use their lines to construct the places where we will live. How can we explain the omission of bodies from maps and plans?

• ISBN: 9780824832469
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 31.10.2008
• Größe: 236 x 160 mm
• Verlag: University of Hawaii Press