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Topoi/Graphein Mapping the Middle in Spatial Thought
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Topoi/Graphein [electronic resource] : Mapping the Middle in Spatial Thought / Christian Abrahamsson ; foreword by Gunnar Olsson.
ISBN
1496206088
9781496206060
9781496206084
9781496204196
9781496206077 (mobi)
Published
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2018. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
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1 online resource.
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Summary
"In Topoi/Graphein Christian Abrahamsson maps the paradoxical limit of the in-between to revealthat to be human is to know how tolive with the difference between the known and the unknown. Using filmic case studies, including CodeInconnu, 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 whichhuman thought and action are anchored in the given of identity. He then movesthrough a social world in which spatiotemporal transformations are neitherfixed nor taken for granted. Finally he edges into the pure temporality that liesbeyond the maps of fixed points and social relations. Each chapter is organized into two subjects: topoi, orexcerpts from the films, and graphein, the author's interpretation ofpresented theoriesto 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."-- Provided by publisher.
"Topoi/Graphein uses filmic case studies to ponder some of the most profound philosophical and conceptual questions concerning the human condition from a geographical perspective, focusing specifically on mapping the paradoxical limit of the in-between"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - 2018 Complete.
Project MUSE - 2018 Philosophy and Religion.
Other formats
Print version: Abrahamsson, Christian, author. Topoigraphein Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2018
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 05, 2018
Series
Cultural geographies + rewriting the earth
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: 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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