Geographies of Disorientation by Friedberg, Marcella Schmidt di -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents List of tables Acknowledgements Foreword Introduction

The Aleph The “uncanny feeling” of getting lost The delicious flavour of getting lost Structure of the book and methodology Notes

PART I: Orientation/disorientation

1. Orientation/disorientation in physical space

Lost in translation North, South, East, West, the four dwarfs of the Edda Of stars, winds, and mountains Losing one’s bearings: the origin of the compass Where is North? Lost on the map Notes

2. (Dis)orienting oneself in thinking

The art of losing isn’t hard to master You are here The cognitive map Finding oneself “turned around” and walking straight in circles Maps and routes Notes

3. Philosophies of disorientation

On space (Dis)orientation and Kant Kant and space The metaphor of dis-orientation Lifeworld and phenomenology The post-phenomenological approach Migration as a process of disorientation and reorientation Out of place Notes

PART II: Lost subjects

Gender relations and spatial tasks Hunters and gatherers? Women can’t read maps? Ariadne, lady of the labyrinth Sexual (dis)orientation Note

5. “On the origin of certain instincts”

Disorientation of bodies that do not quite belong “Cet instinct qui sert à l’indigène de guide infaillible” The instinct debate in Nature Animal migration Notes

6. Different spatial abilities

A phenomenological approach to orientation disorders Drugs, hallucinations, tripping Losing one’s mind and spatial disorientation Developmental Topographical Disorientation (DTD) Aging and spatial cognition Alzheimer’s disease Notes

PART III: The labyrinth of the world: places of disorientation

7. Labyrinths

The figure of the labyrinth The dance of the labyrinth The Cretan labyrinth From the medieval to the Mannerist labyrinth Notes

8. The city: a labyrinth where you are never lost

The broken map The flâneur Wandering, from the Dadaists to the Situationists A world of citizens The urban rhizome The mongrel city Suburbia (the city below) Seeing and making the city Practices of resistance Notes

9. Lost in an unfrequented wilderness

Seas and forests: unjelled, wild, and threatening manifestations of nature “I found that I was in a gloomy wood, because the path which led aright was lost” Holzwege Over-forestation “Lost in an unfrequented wilderness” All at sea The quest for longitude Accidental settlements in the Pacific Adrift Notes

10. Lost in cyberspace and art

Cyberspace The spatial metaphor of the Web The virtual labyrinth of cyberspace Cyborgs Mapping cyberspace The rules of perspective Art as a form of transgression The art of disorientation Notes

Epilogue References Index