Topoi/ Graphein: Mapping the Middle in Spatial Thought - Couverture souple

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Abrahamsson, Christian

 
9781496205773: Topoi/ Graphein: Mapping the Middle in Spatial Thought
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ISBN 10 : 1496205774 ISBN 13 : 9781496205773
Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 2018

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

Christian Abrahamsson is an independent scholar in Sweden. He is the coeditor of GO: On the Geographies of Gunnar Olsson. Gunnar Olsson is a professor emeritus at the Uppsala University in Sweden. He is the author of Birds in Egg/Eggs in Bird, Lines of Power/Limits of Language, and Abysmal: A Critique of Cartographic Reason.

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Éditeur
University of Nebraska Press
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1496205774
ISBN 13 
9781496205773
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
192
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ISBN 10 :  1496204190 ISBN 13 :  9781496204196
Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 2018
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