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    Topoi/Graphein
    Mapping the Middle in Spatial Thought

    Christian Abrahamsson (Author), Gunnar Olsson (Foreword by)

    9781496204196

    Hardback, published 1 May 2018

    192 pages, 30 images, 9 figures, index
    22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.434 kg

    In Topoi/Graphein Christian Abrahamsson maps the paradoxical limit of the in-between to reveal that to be human is to know how to live with the difference between the known and the unknown. Using filmic case studies, including Code Inconnu, 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 which human thought and action are anchored in the given of identity. He then moves through a social world in which spatiotemporal transformations are neither fixed nor taken for granted. Finally he edges into the pure temporality that lies beyond the maps of fixed points and social relations.

    Each chapter is organized into two subjects: topoi, or excerpts from the films, and graphein, the author’s interpretation of presented theories to 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.
     

    List of Illustrations    
    Foreword: Born Again, by Gunnar Olsson    
    Introduction: Angle of Power    
    Part 1. Code inconnu/Crossroads
    Chapter 1. Encounter/Point    
    Chapter 2. Wall/Stone    
    Chapter 3. Code inconnu/When Above    
    Chapter 4. Limits/Oedipus    
    Chapter 5. Stranger/Terra Firma    
    Part 2. Lord of the Flies/Passages
    Chapter 6. Desert/Line    
    Chapter 7. Thing/Swerve    
    Chapter 8. Lord of the Flies/Through    
    Chapter 9. Division/Hermes    
    Chapter 10. Fire/Terra Nullius    
    Part 3. Apocalypse Now/The Event
    Chapter 11. Dream/Plane    
    Chapter 12. River/Cloud    
    Chapter 13. Apocalypse Now/In-Between    
    Chapter 14. Darkness/Janus    
    Chapter 15. Abyss/Horror Vacui    
    Part 4. Geographein
    Epilogue    
    Notes    
    Bibliography    
    Index    
     
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