Christian Abrahamsson

Topoi/Graphein (eBook, PDF)

Mapping the Middle in Spatial Thought

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496206084
• Artikelnr.: 55972755

Autorenporträt

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.     

Inhaltsangabe

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