Gunnar Olsson

Arkography (eBook, ePUB)

A Grand Tour through the Taken-for-Granted

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496221360
• Artikelnr.: 59629770

Autorenporträt

Gunnar Olsson is an internationally acclaimed and highly distinguished Swedish geographer. He is professor emeritus at the University of Uppsala in Sweden. Olsson is the author of Birds in Egg/Eggs in Bird, Lines of Power/Limits of Language, and Abysmal: A Critique of Cartographic Reason.

Inhaltsangabe

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