Opening book details…
Can I read Dark Writing: Geography, Performance, Design (Writing Past Colonialism) on EtoBox?
Dark Writing: Geography, Performance, Design (Writing Past Colonialism) by Paul Carter is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Dark Writing: Geography, Performance, Design (Writing Past Colonialism) about?
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. But the rectilinear streets, squares, and public spaces produced in this way leave out people and the entire environmental history of their coming together. How, this book asks, can we explain the omission of bodies from maps and plans? And how can we redraw the lines maps and plans use so that the qualitative world of shadows, footprints, comings and goings, and occasions--all essential qualities of places that incubate sociality--can be registered? In short, Dark Writing asks why we represent the world as static when our experience of it is mobile. It traces this bias in Enlightenment cartography, in inductive logic, and in contemporary place design. This is the negative
Who reads Dark Writing: Geography, Performance, Design (Writing Past Colonialism)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Paul Carter
- Publisher
- University of Hawai'i Press ; Eurospan [distributor
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780824832469
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Engineering, Philosophy, Science
Other editions & translations
More by Paul Carter
Browse all works by Paul Carter
Similar books
- Fiction of Imperialism (Writing Past Colonialism Series) — Phillip Darby; University of Bristol. Library. University of Westminster War and Culture Studies Archive (1998)
- Postcolonial Geographies (Writing Past Colonialism Series) — edited by Alison Blunt and Cheryl McEwan (2003)
- Out of Bounds: Anglo-Indian Literature and the Geography of Displacement (Writing Past Colonialism) — Alan G. Johnson (2011)
- Writing for Performance (Teaching Writing) — Harris, Anne, Jones, Stacy Holman (2016)
- Design Performance — Francis J. O’Donnell PhD, Alexander H.B. Duffy PhD, CEng (auth.) (2005)
- Colonialism Past and Present : Reading and Writing About Colonial Latin America Today Colonialism Past and Present : Reading and Writing About Colonial Latin America Today — Alvaro Felix Bolanos; Alvaro Félix Bolaños; Gustavo Verdesio; Gustavo Also Verdesio (2002)
