In space we read time
| Titel: | In space we read time : on the history of civilization and geopolitics / Karl Schlögel ; translated by Gerrit Jackson |
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| Veröffentlicht: | New York City : Bard Graduate Center, [2016] |
| Umfang: | xxiii, 496 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Cultural histories of the material world |
| Einheitssachtitel: | Im Raume lesen wir die Zeit |
| ISBN: | 9781941792087 ; 1941792081 |
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
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X
- Series Editor's Preface
- p. ix
- Preface to the American Edition
- p. xiii
- Introduction
- p. xviii
- The Return of Space
- Alexander von Humboldt's Ship Navigation
- p. 3
- Object Lesson I: The Fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989
- p. 8
- Object Lesson II: Ground Zero, September 11, 2001
- p. 12
- "Spatial Atrophy": The Disappearance of Space
- p. 17
- Horror Vacui: The Terrors of Simultaneity
- p. 28
- The German Case: Space as Obsession
- p. 32
- Spatial Turn, At Last
- p. 39
- Cyberia: New Space, New Geopolitics
- p. 49
- Reading Maps
- Times of the Map: The Cartographic Record of Time
- p. 56
- What Maps Show: Knowledge and Human Interests
- p. 63
- Language of Maps, Cartographic Languages
- p. 70
- War and the Eye
- p. 80
- Sarajevo: When Knowing the Terrain Is Essential for Survival
- p. 82
- The Layout of the Ghetto of Kovno
- p. 88
- Philo-Allas: Escape Routes
- p. 93
- Arcades: Benjamin's Walk to the Bibliothèque nationale
- p. 97
- Boundaries, Razor-Sharp and Otherwise
- p. 105
- World Pictures, Map Images: Another Phenomenology of Spirit
- p. 115
- Landscapes, Paradisiacal and Other
- p. 120
- Portolan Charts: Putting Out to Sea, Sailing for New Shores
- p. 126
- Discours du méridien: Descartes and Cassini
- p. 131
- Jefferson's Map: The Matrix of American Democracy
- p. 140
- Mapping an Empire: The Geographical Construction of India, 1765-1843
- p. 151
- Maps, Monochrome: The Nation-State
- p. 160
- Global Traffic: The Power of the Bourgeoisie
- p. 171
- Jan Vermeer's The Geographer (1669)
- p. 179
- Giving the World a Name
- p. 184
- Sándor Radó: The Spy Who Loved Cartography
- p. 187
- Mental Maps: San Francisco, "Home," the German East, etc.
- p. 199
- The Strategist's Gesture: Scenes at the Map Table
- p. 204
- The Flâneur: A Way of Moving, a Cognitive Register
- p. 215
- The Work of the Eve
- The Work of the Eye. Trusting Our Eyes. "In Space We Read Time"
- p. 222
- Crime Scene: Dallas, Texas, November 22, 1963, 12:30 p.m.
- p. 227
- The Sidewalk Pavement: Surfaces, Hieroglyphs
- p. 229
- Landscapes, Reliefs
- p. 233
- Hot Places. Cold Places
- p. 242
- Reading Cities, City Maps
- p. 253
- Houses, Floor Plans: Hotel Lux, the House on the Embankment, and Others
- p. 262
- Proust Interiors
- p. 269
- Berlin Address Books
- p. 275
- Local Knowledge, Subversive
- p. 292
- Railroad Timetables: Protocols of Civilization
- p. 297
- The Fingerprint: Relief of the Body
- p. 307
- Biography, Curriculum Vitae
- p. 310
- Karl Baedeker's Handbook for Travelers, or The Construction of Central Europe
- p. 314
- American Space: The Poetics of the Highway
- p. 321
- Russian Space: An Essay in Hermeneutics
- p. 333
- Europe, Diaphanous
- Traveling Europe in Diaghilev's Footsteps
- p. 350
- Topographies of Terror
- p. 369
- Europe, a Graveyard
- p. 373
- The Gate at Birkenau
- p. 384
- Arrows: Changes of Place, Movement Images
- p. 390
- Remapping Europe
- p. 399
- Herodotus in Moscow, Benjamin in Los Angeles
- p. 411
- Notes
- p. 437
- Selected Bibliography
- p. 466
- Index
- p. 489
