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" Dark writing : "
Paul Carter.
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BL
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996732
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b751102
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Carter, Paul,1951-
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Dark writing : : geography, performance, design /\ Paul Carter.
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| Publication Statement
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Honolulu :: University of Hawai'i Press,, ©2009.
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| Series Statement
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Writing past colonialism
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1 online resource (xviii, 306 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) :: illustrations (some color), maps (some color).
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0824862147
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: 0824868943
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: 1441619909
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: 9780824868949
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: 9781441619907
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0824832469
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0824833120
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9780824832469
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9780824833121
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-299) and index.
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| Contents
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Step-by-step : geography's myth -- Dark with excess of bright : mapping the coastlines of knowledge -- Drawing the line : putting spatial history into practice -- The interpretation of dreams : mobilizing the papunya tula painting movement, 1971-1972 -- Making tracks : interpreting a ground plan -- Solutions : storyboarding a humid zone -- Trace : a running commentary on Relay -- Dark writing : the body's inscription in history's light.
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"In short, Dark Writing asks why we represent the world as static when our experience of it is mobile. It traces this bias in Enlightenment cartography, in inductive logic, and in contemporary place design. This is the negative critique. Its positive argument is that, when we look closely at these designs on the world, we find traces of a repressed movement form. Even the ideal lines of geometrical figures turn out to contain traces of earlier passages; and there are many forms of graphic design that do engage with the dark environment that surrounds the light of reason. How can this 'dark writing' - so important to reconfiguring our world as a place of meeting, of co-existence and sustaining diversity - be represented? And how, therefore, can our representations of the world embody more sensuously the mobile histories that have produced it? Dark Writing answers these questions using case studies: the exemplary case of the beginnings of the now world-famous Papunya Tula Painting Movement (Central Australia) and three high-profile public place-making initiatives in which the author was involved as artist and thinker. These case studies are nested inside historical chapters and philosophical discussions of the line and linear thinking that make Dark Writing both a highly personal book and a narrative with wide general appeal."--Book cover.
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Cartography-- Philosophy.
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Environmental geography.
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Geography-- Philosophy.
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Cartography-- Philosophy.
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Environmental geography.
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Geography-- Philosophy.
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Kartografie
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SCIENCE-- Earth Sciences-- Geography.
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TECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING-- Cartography.
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Theorie
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Geographie.
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| Dewey Classification
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526.01
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GA102.3.C367 2009eb
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