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Airportness: The Nature of Flight de Dr. Christopher Schaberg

Airportness: The Nature of Flight

Autor Dr. Christopher Schaberg
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 sep 2017
Airportness takes the reader on a single day's journey through all the routines and stages of an ordinary flight. From curbside to baggage, and pondering the minutes and hours of sitting in between, Christopher Schaberg contemplates the mundane world of commercial aviation to discover "the nature of flight." For Schaberg this means hearing planes in the sky, recognizing airline symbols in unlikely places, and navigating the various zones of transit from sliding doors, to jet bridge, to lavatory. It is an ongoing, swarming ecosystem that unfolds each day as we fly, get stranded, and arrive at our destinations. Airportness turns out to be more than just architecture and design elements-rather, it is all the rumble and buzz of flight, the tedium of travel as well as the feelings of uplift.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781501325694
ISBN-10: 1501325698
Pagini: 200
Ilustrații: 23 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 127 x 197 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

Uses accessible texts and unexpected points of entry-actual airports, popular films, and intriguing art pieces involving planes-to get at rather subtle and controversially counterintuitive theories of nature and environment

Notă biografică

Christopher Schaberg is Associate Professor of English and Environmental Studies at Loyola University New Orleans, USA, where he teaches courses on contemporary literature and nonfiction, cultural studies, and environmental theory. He is the author of The Textual Life of Airports: Reading the Culture of Flight (2013) and The End of Airports (2015) and co-editor of Deconstructing Brad Pitt (2014). He is series co-editor (with Ian Bogost) of Bloomsbury's Object Lessons.

Cuprins

1. Preflight2. Ride to the Airport3. Curbside4. Boarding Pass5. Security6. Walk to the Gate7. People Watching8. Attack9. Waiting10. Workers11. Art12. Gate Change13. Gate Lice14. Fishing Shirts15. Runway16. Holding17. Takeoff18. Window Seat19. Sunrise20. Armrests21. New Planes22. Airplane Reading I23. Consider the Lavatory24. Snacking25. Initial Descent26. Connection27. Play28. Sparrows29. Twitter30. Breakfast31. 74732. Colin Farrell33. In-flight Entertainment I: Somewhere34. In-flight Entertainment II: The Force Awakens35. Airplane Reading II36. Plane Sighting37. Higher Still38. Entanglements39. In-flight Entertainment III: United 9340. Old Planes41. Gender42. Water Landing43. Arrival44. Destination45. Baggage46. Exit47. HomeAcknowledgmentsBibliography Index

Recenzii

Schaberg has singlehandedly invented the rapidly ascending field of airport studies.
Slim and elegant ... Schaberg has an intuitive way for us to cruise over this landscape of theoretical hills and valleys. He uses the first-person voice to recreate an average journey made by air.
Airportness is an insightful, witty guide to the ecologies of Earth's strange new habitat. A Thoreau not of Concord, but of the concourse, Schaberg writes with boundless curiosity for the many layers of meaning and contradiction within the physical and mental space of airports.
An enchanting, meditative journey through the cultures and ecologies of contemporary flight. Airportness unsettles places and processes that are often taken for granted, drawing us out into the simultaneously fascinating and disturbing webs of earthly possibility that are tangled up in the world-forming creature we call an airport.
With deep insight and a singular brilliance, Christopher Schaberg takes the reader on a journey from curb to curb, chastising us for our indifference to cloudscapes, rekindling our wonder for liftoff, asking us to reckon with airport as metaphor for late-stage capitalism, for American identity, for the last vestiges of faith, even, ironically, for what we call home. Part razor-sharp critique, part advanced elegy for a doomed mode of transportation, Airportness is finally a declaration of love for a threatened land(sky)scape, an imperative to remain awake and alive.
I loved this book. Exemplifying the enduring value of flânerie, Schaberg's insightful fragments cohere into compelling arguments about supermodernity as we go on a 'trip' with him through the well-worn paths of the contemporary airport. This collage of passionate vignettes, quirky observations and analytical musings made serendipitous connections I hadn't noticed before. His enthusiasm is as infectious as his observations are sharp. It was refreshing for these jaded eyes to see the airport anew. Highly recommended.
A breezy read that describes a single-day's journey through the seemingly routine but interconnected activities that characterize air flight today . One hope Schaberg has for readers of his book is that they will learn to be more contemplative and flexible as they roll their luggage through the Disney World-style lines on their way to meet the TSA agent with the blue latex gloves . Yes, airline travel is filled with mysteries and conundrums, but Schaberg offers a few tips. The maxim that tickets are cheaper if you fly on Tuesdays or Wednesdays is usually true "but not always the case." Pack smaller and carry on your bag to lower your blood pressure. Appreciate the craziness and the bravery of the Wright Brothers and other aviation pioneers, including Moisant, who gave their lives to create this amazing advance in human history.
A fascinating study exploring the peculiar state of consciousness created by modern air travel.