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- English
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A Place More Void
About this book
A Place More Void takes its name from a scene in William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, wherein an elderly soothsayer has a final chance to warn Caesar about the Ides of March. Worried that he won't be able to deliver his message because of the crowded alleyways, the soothsayer devises a plan to find and intercept Caesar in "a place more void." It is precisely such an elusive place that this volume makes space for by theorizing and empirically exploring the many yet widely neglected ways in which the void permeates geographical thinking. This collection presents geography's most in-depth and sustained engagements with the void to date, demonstrating the extent to which related themes such as gaps, cracks, lacks, and emptiness perforate geography's fundamental concepts, practices, and passions. Arranged in four parts around the themes of Holes, Absences, Edges, and Voids, the contributions demonstrate the fecundity of the void for thinking across a wide range of phenomena: from archives to alien abductions, caves to cryptids, and vortexes to vanishing points. A Place More Void gathers established and emerging scholars who engage a wide range of geographical issues and who express themselves not only through archival, literary, and socio-scientific investigations, but also through social and spatial theory, political manifesto, poetry, and performance art.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part 1
- 1. Urban Renewal and the Actuality of Absence
- 2. “The Crack in the Earth”
- 3. The Vortex and the Void
- 4. Six Voids
- Part 2
- 5. Tracking Silence
- 6. The Void and Its Summons
- 7. Derwent’s Ghost
- 8. “It Watches You Vanish”
- Part 3
- 9. enfolding
- 10. Beyond the Feminine Void
- 11. Politics for the Impasse
- 12. Raising Sasquatch to the Place of the Cryptozoological Thing
- Part 4
- 13. O(void)
- 14. Playing with Plenitude and Finitude
- 15. In the Void of Formalization
- 16. Localizing the Void
- Coda
- Contributors
- Index
- About Paul Kingsbury
- About Anna J. Secor
- Series List