No maps for these territories : cities, spaces, and archaeologies of the future in William Gibson / Karin Hoepker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoepker, Karin.

Series:

Spatial practices ; 12.

Spatial practices : an interdisciplinary series in cultural history, geography and literature, 1871-689X ; 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gibson, William, 1948---Criticism and interpretation.

Gibson, William.

Future, The, in literature.

Archaeology in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Acknowledgements

Introduction: New Cartographies – New Cartographers?

A Short Introduction to Science Fiction since the 1980's: Contextualizing William Gibson

Sprawl Space

Junk Art – Towards a spatial poetics

Space and Habitation: Century City II – City within a City

Replascape – Urban Nature and Artificial Landscaping

The Malling of Space

Pattern Recognition and the End of the Future

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

A revision of the author's doctoral dissertation submitted in American studies at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg.

Includes bibliographical references (p.[233]-248) and index.

ISBN:

1-280-49702-5

9786613592255

94-012-0052-1

OCLC:

785785352