Dark Writing

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8248-3312-1
Verlag: University of Hawaii Press

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 579 g

Reihe: Writing Past Colonialism

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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Über Autor(innen)

Paul Carter is professorial fellow of architecture, building, and planning at the University of Melbourne.