Arkography : a grand tour through the taken-for-granted
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Arkography : a grand tour through the taken-for-granted
（Cultural geographies + rewriting the earth / series editors, Paul Kingsbury, Arun Saldanha）
University of Nebraska Press, c2020
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
In this fascinating text Gunnar Olsson tells the story of an arkographer, who with Pallas Athene's blessings, travels down the Red River Valley, navigates the Kantian Island of Truth, and takes a house-tour through the Crystal Palace, the latter edifice an imagination grown out of Gunnael Jensson's sculpture Mappa Mundi Universalis. This travel story carries the arkographer from the oldest creation epics extant to the power struggles of today-nothing less than a codification of the taken-for-granted, a mapping of the no-man's-land between the five senses of the body and the sixth sense of culture. By constantly asking how we are made so obedient and predictable, the explorer searches for the present-day counterparts to the biblical ark, the chest that held the commandments and the rules of behavior that came with them-hence the term "arkography," a word hinting at an as-yet-unrecognized discipline.
In Arkography Olsson strips bare the governing techniques of self-declared authorities, including those of the God of the Old Testament and countless dictators, the latter supported by a horde of lackeys often disguised as elected representatives and governmental functionaries. From beginning to end, Arkography is an illustration of how every creation epic is a variation on the theme of chaos turning into cosmic order. A palimpsest of layered meanings, a play of things and relations, identity and difference. One and many, you and me.
Table of Contents
Preface: Who Is Who and What Is What?
I: Red River Wake
Enuma elish
Gilgamesh
Genesis
Exodus
Platopolis
II: Imaginare Necesse Est
Saussurean Bar
The Republic
Edging
Island of Truth
Mappa Mundi Universalis
III: Crystal Palace
Inside
Basement
Prophets' Hall
Ball Room
Attic
Penthouse
IV: Archives
Travelogue
Notes
Hidden references
Alpha and Omega
Given
Index
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