Topoi/Graphein
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Topoi/Graphein

Mapping the Middle in Spatial Thought

  1. 198 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Topoi/Graphein

Mapping the Middle in Spatial Thought

About this book

In Topoi/Graphein Christian Abrahamsson maps the paradoxical limit of the in-between to revealthat to be human is to know how tolive with the difference between the known and the unknown. Using filmic case studies, including CodeInconnu, Lord of the Flies, and Apocalypse Now, and focusing on key concerns developed in the works of the philosophers Deleuze, Olsson, and Wittgenstein, Abrahamsson starts within the notion of fixed spatiality, in whichhuman thought and action are anchored in the given of identity. He then movesthrough a social world in which spatiotemporal transformations are neitherfixed nor taken for granted. Finally he edges into the pure temporality that liesbeyond the maps of fixed points and social relations. Each chapter is organized into two subjects: topoi, orexcerpts from the films, and graphein, the author's interpretation ofpresented theoriesto mirror the displacements, transpositions, juxtapositions, fluctuations, and transformations between delimited categories. A landmark work in the study of human geography, Abrahamsson's book proposes that academic and intellectual attention should focus on the spatialization between meaning and its materialization in everyday life.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Foreword
  9. Introduction
  10. Part 1
  11. 1. Encounter/Point
  12. 2. Wall/Stone
  13. 3. Code inconnu/When Above
  14. 4. Limits/Oedipus
  15. 5. Stranger/Terra Firma
  16. Part 2
  17. 6. Desert/Line
  18. 7. Thing/Swerve
  19. 8. Lord of the Flies/Through
  20. 9. Division/Hermes
  21. 10. Fire/Terra Nullius
  22. Part 3
  23. 11. Dream/Plane
  24. 12. River/Cloud
  25. 13. Apocalypse Now/In-Between
  26. 14. Darkness/Janus
  27. 15. Abyss/Horror Vacui
  28. Part 4
  29. Epilogue
  30. Notes
  31. Bibliography
  32. Index
  33. About Christian Abrahamsson
  34. About Gunnar Olsson
  35. Series List