
Dark Writing
Geography, Performance, Design
Paul Carter(Author)
University of Hawai'i Press
Published on 31. October 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
328 pages
978-0-8248-3312-1 (ISBN)
Description
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?
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Honolulu, HI
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
71 illustrations, 21 in colour, 4 maps
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
579 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8248-3312-1 (9780824833121)
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Person
Paul Carter is professorial fellow of architecture, building, and planning at the University of Melbourne.