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Mapping It Out
No full textCharles B. Travis’s Abstract Machine: Humanities GIS takes its place among a number of recent book-length studies or themed collections that bring focus to the potential for Geographical Information Systems (or GIS) as a productive tool for geocritical work in the humanities. Indiana University Press’s “Spatial Humanities” series has, since 2010, led the charge by publishing (so far) eight books that concentrate on the application of GIS to humanities disciplines such as history, film studies, and literary studies. Literary studies is, in particular, a key emerging site for this kind of “spatial humanities” or “digital geohumanities”-type research, as evidenced by the publication of a cluster of books over the past two years, including Cooper et al.’s 2016 edited collection, Literary Mapping in the Digital Age; Stadler et al.’s 2016 Imagined Landscapes: Geovisualizing Australian Spatial Narratives (a book I co-authored); and Travis’s Abstract Machine, published in 2015..
Atmospheres : Aesthetics of emotional spaces[Review]
No full textMore problematic than his avoidance of recent geographic scholarship is his treatment of indigenous, ethnographic and postcolonial perspectives on island life. Not only is much of this scholarship absent, the bits that are there are mostly derided. He slams Kamau Braithwaite and his concept of ‘tidalectics’ as ‘unpackable’ (p. 20) and also claims that Greg Dening’s approach to islands as having\ud
‘permeable cultural boundaries’ has ‘intellectual costs’\ud
(p. 23). In a section of the book on ‘Naming and Sovereignty’, instead of an in-depth examination of the processes of decoding and recoding that goes on in indigenous island landscapes under colonialism (as could be\ud
discussed at length if Shell chose to examine Aotearoa, Hawaii, or hundreds of other places) we are instead presented a vignette about his childhood street fights with other kids over the naming of a hometown island in Canada, as well as ruminations about what Herman Melville and Ellen Semple thought of islands in the nineteenth century.\ud
In short, if you want to know what dead Caucasians like Shakespeare, Melville, Kant, Mackinder, More, and ancient Athenians thought about islands, then this book is a good\ud
resource. If, however, you are looking for information about what islands are like today – and what they mean to the people who live on and interact with them – then you will have to look elsewhere
Online publishing
No full textThe Oxford Companion to the Book is the first reference work of its kind covering the broad concept of the book throughout the world from ancient to modern times. Along with such subjects as bibliography, the history of printing, editorial theory and practice, and textual criticism, it also engages with newer disciplines such as the history of the book and the electronic book. Additionally, the companion provides an engaging analysis of how books and societies have shaped one another. Written by the world's top scholars in bibliography and book history, the companion is an authoritative and highly informative work of reference for an international readership across a vast range of disciplines. [publisher's website
‘A Small Space of Chaos’: Elizabeth Grosz’s Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth
No full textReview of Elizabeth Grosz's Chaos, Territory, Ar
Review: He Pitopito Kôrero nô te Perehi Mâori: Readings from the Maori-Language Press [Book Review]
No full textEditorial : Loop
No full textThis time last year we proposed the theme of the 'loop' issue to the M/C collective because it sounded deeply cool, satisfying our poststructuralist posturings about reflexivity and representation, while also tapping into everyday cultural objects and practices. We expected that the 'loop' issue would generate some interesting and varied responses, and it did. We received submissions about music, visual art, language, child development, pop-cultural artefacts, mathematics and culture in general. These explorations of disparate fields seemed, however, to be tied together by a common thread: the concept of "generation" itself. Each article in the 'loop' issue describes a loop that does not simply repeat an original operation, but that through iteration creates new possibilities and new meanings..
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