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9781472477354: From the Lighthouse: Interdisciplinary Reflections on Light
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ISBN 10 : 1472477359 ISBN 13 : 9781472477354
Editeur : Routledge, 2018

Synopsis

What is a lighthouse? What does it mean? What does it do? This book shows how exchanging knowledge across disciplinary boundaries can transform our thinking. Adopting an unconventional structure, this book involves the reader in a multivocal conversation between scholars, poets and artists. Seen through their individual perspectives, lighthouses appear as signals of safety, beacons of enlightenment, phallic territorial markers, and memorials of historical relationships with the sea. However, the interdisciplinary conversation also reveals underlying and sometimes unexpected connections. It elucidates the human and non-human evolutionary adaptations that use light for signalling and warning; the visual languages created by regularity and synchronicity in pulses of light; how lighthouses have generated a whole 'family' of related material objects and technologies; and the way that light flows between social and material worlds.

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À propos de l?auteur

Veronica Strang directs Durham University's Institute of Advanced Study and is the author of The Meaning of Water (2004), Gardening the World: Agency, Identity and the Ownership of Water (2009) and Water: Nature and Culture (2015).

Tim Edensor belongs to the Geography Department of Manchester Metropolitan University and is the author of From Light to Dark: Daylight, Illumination and Gloom (2017), Industrial Ruins (2005) and editor of Geographies of Rhythm (2010).

Joanna Puckering works for the Durham University's Institute of Advanced Study. Joanna completed her PhD at the Department of Anthropology, Durham University.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1472477359
ISBN 13 
9781472477354
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
292
Éditeur
Strang Veronica, Edensor Tim, Puckering Joanna
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0367591324 ISBN 13 :  9780367591328
Editeur : Routledge, 2020
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