Dark Writing - Geography, Performance, Design

Informationen zum Autor Paul Carter is professorial fellow of architecture! building! and planning at the University of Melbourne. Klappentext We do not see empty figures and outlines; we do not move in straight lines. Everywhere we are surrounded by dapple; the geometry of our embodied lives is curviform, meandering, bi-pedal. Our personal worlds are timed, inter-positional, and contingent. But nowhere in the language of cartography and design do these ordinary experiences appear. This, Dark Writing argues, is a serious omission because they are designs on the world: architects and colonizers use their lines to construct the places where we will live. How can we explain the omission of bodies from maps and plans? Zusammenfassung We do not see empty figures and outlines; we do not move in straight lines. Everywhere we are surrounded by dapple; the geometry of our embodied lives is curviform. But nowhere in the language of cartography and design do these ordinary experiences appear. This book argues that this is a serious omission because they are designs on the world.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Paul Carter
• Editore: University of hawaii press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.12.2008
• EAN: 9780824833121
• ISBN: 978-0-8248-3312-1
• Pagine: 306
• Dimensioni: 159 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Serie: Writing Past Colonialism (Pape; Writing Past Colonialism; Writing Past Colonialism
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Geoscienze > Geografia; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Architettura