Arkography : A Grand Tour through the Taken-for-Granted Hardback
by Gunnar Olsson
Part of the Cultural Geographies + Rewriting the Earth series
Hardback
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In this fascinating text Gunnar Olsson tells the story of an arkographer, who with Pallas Athene’s blessings, travels down the Red River Valley, navigates the Kantian Island of Truth, and takes a house-tour through the Crystal Palace, the latter edifice an imagination grown out of Gunnael Jensson’s sculpture Mappa Mundi Universalis.
This travel story carries the arkographer from the oldest creation epics extant to the power struggles of today—nothing less than a codification of the taken-for-granted, a mapping of the no-man’s-land between the five senses of the body and the sixth sense of culture.
By constantly asking how we are made so obedient and predictable, the explorer searches for the present-day counterparts to the biblical ark, the chest that held the commandments and the rules of behavior that came with them—hence the term “arkography,” a word hinting at an as-yet-unrecognized discipline. In Arkography Olsson strips bare the governing techniques of self-declared authorities, including those of the God of the Old Testament and countless dictators, the latter supported by a horde of lackeys often disguised as elected representatives and governmental functionaries.
From beginning to end, Arkography is an illustration of how every creation epic is a variation on the theme of chaos turning into cosmic order.
A palimpsest of layered meanings, a play of things and relations, identity and difference.
One and many, you and me.
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- Pages:228 pages, 8 photographs, 35 illustrations, index
- Publisher:University of Nebraska Press
- Publication Date:01/05/2020
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- ISBN:9781496219473
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:228 pages, 8 photographs, 35 illustrations, index
- Publisher:University of Nebraska Press
- Publication Date:01/05/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781496219473
