What is a lighthouse? What does it mean? What does it do? This book shows how exchanging knowledge across disciplinary boundaries can transform our thinking. Adopting an unconventional structure, this book involves the reader in a multivocal conversation between scholars, poets and artists. Seen through their individual perspectives, lighthouses appear as signals of safety, beacons of enlightenment, phallic territorial markers, and memorials of historical relationships with the sea. However, the interdisciplinary conversation also reveals underlying and sometimes unexpected connections. It elucidates the human and non-human evolutionary adaptations that use light for signalling and warning; the visual languages created by regularity and synchronicity in pulses of light; how lighthouses have generated a whole 'family' of related material objects and technologies; and the way that light flows between social and material worlds.

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From the Lighthouse: Interdisciplinary Reflections on Light
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Copyright
Contents
List of Figures
List of Plates
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
360° of Illumination
Light Matters
Light as a Matter of Life and Death
On the Edge of the Dark
Attractive and Repulsive Light
Phenomenological Light
Divine Rays
Lighthouses in Time and Space
Technologies of Light and Power
Building the Lighthouse
Material Relatives
The Body of the Lighthouse
Light Messages
Space and Place
The Art of Lighthouses
360°
Concluding Comments
References
Index

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