Airportness: The Nature of Flight
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| Rating | : | 4.80 (996 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1501325698 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 200 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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Highly recommended.” —Gillian Fuller, author of AVIOPOLIS. “An enchanting, meditative journey through the cultures and ecologies of contemporary flight. It was refreshing for these jaded eyes to see the airport anew. 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” —David George Haskell, Professor of Biology, University of the South, USA, and author of The Songs of Trees and Pulitzer finalist The Forest Unseen“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 clou
He is series co-editor (with Ian Bogost) of Bloomsbury's Object Lessons. 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
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.. 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. Airportness takes the reader on a single day's journey through all the routines and stages of an ordinary flight. It is an ongoing, swarming ecosystem that unfolds each day as we fly, get stranded, and arrive at our destinations