Topoi/graphein : mapping the middle in spatial thought
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Topoi/graphein : mapping the middle in spatial thought
(Cultural geographies + rewriting the earth / series editors, Paul Kingsbury, Arun Saldanha)
University of Nebraska Press, c2018
- : pbk
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Note
Includes bibliograhical references (p. 151-156) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In Topoi/Graphein Christian Abrahamsson maps the paradoxical limit of the in-between to reveal that to be human is to know how to live with the difference between the known and the unknown. Using filmic case studies, including Code Inconnu, Lord of the Flies, and Apocalypse Now, and focusing on key concerns developed in the works of the philosophers Deleuze, Olsson, and Wittgenstein, Abrahamsson starts within the notion of fixed spatiality, in which human thought and action are anchored in the given of identity. He then moves through a social world in which spatiotemporal transformations are neither fixed nor taken for granted. Finally he edges into the pure temporality that lies beyond the maps of fixed points and social relations.
Each chapter is organized into two subjects: topoi, or excerpts from the films, and graphein, the author's interpretation of presented theories to mirror the displacements, transpositions, juxtapositions, fluctuations, and transformations between delimited categories. A landmark work in the study of human geography, Abrahamsson's book proposes that academic and intellectual attention should focus on the spatialization between meaning and its materialization in everyday life.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword: Born Again, by Gunnar Olsson
Introduction: Angle of Power
Part 1. Code inconnu/Crossroads
Chapter 1. Encounter/Point
Chapter 2. Wall/Stone
Chapter 3. Code inconnu/When Above
Chapter 4. Limits/Oedipus
Chapter 5. Stranger/Terra Firma
Part 2. Lord of the Flies/Passages
Chapter 6. Desert/Line
Chapter 7. Thing/Swerve
Chapter 8. Lord of the Flies/Through
Chapter 9. Division/Hermes
Chapter 10. Fire/Terra Nullius
Part 3. Apocalypse Now/The Event
Chapter 11. Dream/Plane
Chapter 12. River/Cloud
Chapter 13. Apocalypse Now/In-Between
Chapter 14. Darkness/Janus
Chapter 15. Abyss/Horror Vacui
Part 4. Geographein
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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