Airportness : the nature of flight / Christopher Schaberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schaberg, Christopher, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Air travel--Social aspects.

Air travel.

Airports--Social aspects.

Airports.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (190 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.

Summary:

"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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

"Explores the surprising connections between the common experience of air travel and how we think about nature"--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

1. Preflight

2. Ride to the Airport

3. Curbside

4. Boarding Pass

5. Security

6. Walk to the Gate

7. People Watching

8. Attack

9. Waiting

10. Workers

11. Art

12. Gate Change

13. Gate Lice

14. Fishing Shirts

15. Runway

16. Holding

17. Takeoff

18. Window Seat

19. Sunrise

20. Armrests

21. New Planes

22. Airplane Reading I

23. Consider the Lavatory

24. Snacking

25. Initial Descent

26. Connection

27. Play

28. Sparrows

29. Twitter

30. Breakfast

31. 747

32. Colin Farrell

33. In-flight Entertainment I: Somewhere

34. In-flight Entertainment II: The Force Awakens

35. Airplane Reading II

36. Plane Sighting

37. Higher Still

38. Entanglements

39. In-flight Entertainment III: United 93

40. Old Planes

41. Gender

42. Water Landing

43. Arrival

44. Destination

45. Baggage

46. Exit

47. Home Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781501325717

150132571X

9781501325731

1501325736

9781501325724

1501325728

OCLC:

992787507