Spatial Residue : Plastic Affects and Configurations of Place.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tahat, Mauve Perle, author.

Series:

Environment and Society.

Environment and Society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plastics.

Built environment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2026.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2026.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

This book is both a critical study and a deeply personal exploration of how environments carry memory.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: A Living Memorial

Where (Finding a Theory of Spatial Narrative)

Who Cares: A Theory of Plastic Affects

Methodological Considerations

The Psychic // Deep Mapping

Navigating Passages: Spatial Narrative, Memory, and Plastic Affects

Types of Space // Taxonomy of Spaces

Topophilia: The Emotional Geographies of Place

Portals and the Chronotope

Non-places

Phenomenology: The Lived Experience of Space and Affect

Present: Memory in the Smallest Gesture

Play, Space, and the Magic Circle of Affect

Chronotopes of the City: The Spatiality of "No Future"

Drift: The Living Presence of Space

The Contradictions We Inhabit

Wayfinding: A Guide to This Book's Spaces

Chapter 2: Portals

The Real Unreal: Meow Wolf at Grapevine Mills Mall

Ong's Hat, New Jersey: A Portal of Conspiracy, Myth, and the Digital Unknown

Google Maps as a Portal to Time and Place

Urban Exploration as Portal Practice

Centralia: A Fire That Won't End

Woodcliff Condos: A Ghosted Suburb

Lincoln Way

The Black Lodge: Enter with Perfect Courage

Oxenfree: Urbex with Ghosts and Grief

Love Canal

The Bell Witch Cave

Personal Pan Pizza Party

Polyphonic Prairies

Bubble Planet

Chapter 3: Navigation

The Blob

Vanishing Points

Minetta Creek

File Folder Ghosts

"Fragments Dim of Lovely Forms"

Cancer Alley

Valley of the Drums

Necroscape // Google Poetics

Fakir's Rest

Croyland Way

Chapter 4: Dead Puppets

Stage as Séance for Public Memory // Stand Clear of the Closing Doors

Cozy Hearse

The Tale of the Captured Souls

Where Is Everybody?

Ghost Whisperer

Forever

Shrimp Jesus

Neon Moon

George Bush's Paintings

Chapter 5: Fugazi

Abandoned.

Secret Mall Apartment

Pittsburgh Mills

Brutalist Sand Castles

Psychic City

Have It Your Way

Dawn of the Dead Mall

Chapter 6: Dismal

Forest Evictions

Fort Rapids and Maui Sands

LaLaurie Mansion

Lake Lanier

Best Western Wichita North

Stink Bugs

Chapter 7: The Carnival

The Clown Motel

A Shit Leopard Can't Change Its Spots

Baskets Family Rodeo

Kitchen

The Haunted Pretzel

The Heartshe Holler

Blinded by the Light

Glitter Mausoleum

Video Tanning

Chapter 8: Beige Hell

Randyland

The Heidelberg Project

The Philadelphia Magic Gardens

Wynwood Walls

Jones in the Fast Lane

Black Hole Sun

Slab City

East Jesus

Prison Poetry

Chapter 9: Reclamation of Space // Defiance of Despair

Phillipsburg Projects

Resisting Hostile Architecture

Goings-on: Counter Mapping

Art as Reclamation

Architecture and Space

Land and Nature

Resistance and Joy

World-building Games: The Alluvials

Astrocartography

Fall in Love Again and Again

Bibliography

Index

About the Author.

ISBN:

979-82-16-37873-0

979-82-16-37818-1

979-82-16-37817-4

OCLC:

1573147338