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No Maps for These Territories : Cities, Spaces, and Archaeologies of the Future in William Gibson, Paperback / softback Book

No Maps for These Territories : Cities, Spaces, and Archaeologies of the Future in William Gibson Paperback / softback

Part of the Spatial Practices series

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No Maps for These Territories offers an archaeology of seemingly tried and trusted concepts: cartography, architecture, urban space.

While rethinking Michel Foucault's theories, Karin Hoepker reconstructs the cartographic dispositives of spatial order.

The futuristic fictional cityscapes of science fiction writer William Gibson are the touchstone for this epistemological analysis and typology of spatial formations.

In seven probing chapters that focus on architectural blueprints, forms of inhabitation, Wunderkammern, and economic formations of retail, consumption, and entertainment such as shopping malls, amusement parks, and gambling meccas, Hoepker investigates a set of exemplary phenomena crucial to the fields of architecture, geography, philosophy, cartography, history of science, literary studies, and the arts.

No Maps for These Territories thus offers close readings of fictional, philosophical, and theoretical texts, and examines instructive examples of the workings of spatial production.

In a form of contrastive writing, the monograph sheds critical light on theoretical and fictional texts equally.

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