Dark Writing

by Paul Carter

Book Overview

We do not see empty figures and outlines; we do not move in straight lines. Everywhere we are surrounded by dapple; the geometry of our embodied lives is curviform, meandering, bi-pedal. Our personal worlds are timed, inter-positional, and contingent. But nowhere in the language of cartography and design do these ordinary experiences appear. This, Dark Writing argues, is a serious omission because they are designs on the world: architects and colonizers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824833120
• ISBN13: 9780824833121
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"