We do not see empty figures and outlines; we do not move in straight lines. Everywhere we are surrounded by dapple; the geometry of our embodied lives is curviform, meandering, bi-pedal. Our personal worlds are timed, inter-positional, and contingent.
But nowhere in the language of cartography and design do these ordinary experiences appear. This, ""Dark Writing"" argues, is a serious omission because they are designs on the world: architects and colonizers use their lines to construct the places where we will live. How can we explain the omission of bodies from maps and plans?
| ISBN: | 9780824833121 |
| Publication date: | 31st October 2008 |
| Author: | Paul Carter |
| Publisher: | University of Hawai'i Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 328 pages |
| Series: | Writing Past Colonialism |
| Genres: |
Theory of architecture |
We do not see empty figures and outlines; we do not move in straight lines. Everywhere we are surrounded by dapple; the geometry of our embodied lives is curviform, meandering, bi-pedal.
Dark Writing features in the following genres: Theory of architecture
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Dark Writing was written by Paul Carter and published by University of Hawai'i Press
Dark Writing has 328 pages
Yes it is part of Writing Past Colonialism series