{"product_id":"arkography-9781496219473","title":"Arkography","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this fascinating text Gunnar Olsson tells the story of an arkographer, who with Pallas Athene's blessings, travels down the Red River Valley, navigates the Kantian Island of Truth, and takes a house-tour through the Crystal Palace, the latter edifice an imagination grown out of Gunnael Jensson's sculpture Mappa Mundi Universalis. This travel story carries the arkographer from the oldest creation epics extant to the power struggles of todaynothing less than a codification of the taken-for-granted, a mapping of the no-man's-land between the five senses of the body and the sixth sense of culture. By constantly asking how we are made so obedient and predictable, the explorer searches for the present-day counterparts to the biblical ark, the chest that held the commandments and the rules of behavior that came with themhence the term arkography, a word hinting at an as-yet-unrecognized discipline.    In Arkography Olsson strips bare the governing techniques of self-declared authorities, i\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This book is a significant contribution to what might be configured as the meeting points between academic geography, Western philosophy, critical social science, and arts-humanistic experimentation. It is the major reference point, the go-to source, for anyone wishing to familiarize themselves with the extraordinarily rich arc of Olsson’s thinking over the past four-plus decades.”—Christopher Philo, professor of geography at the University of Glasgow\u003cbr\u003e“Olsson continues to be an exciting thinker because he situates key problems within the field of geography in the broader contexts of Western humanism. . . . A fun, weird, inspiring, and engaging theoretical work. . . . It is a fascinating contribution that will likely be viewed as the capstone work of a major thinker.”—Keith Woodward, assistant professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin–Madison\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface: Who Is Who and What Is What?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I: Red River Wake\u003cbr\u003e Enuma elish\u003cbr\u003e Gilgamesh\u003cbr\u003e Genesis\u003cbr\u003e Exodus\u003cbr\u003e Platopolis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e II: Imaginare Necesse Est\u003cbr\u003e Saussurean Bar\u003cbr\u003e The Republic\u003cbr\u003e Edging\u003cbr\u003e Island of Truth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Mappa Mundi Universalis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e III: Crystal Palace\u003cbr\u003e Inside\u003cbr\u003e Basement\u003cbr\u003e Prophets’ Hall\u003cbr\u003e Ball Room\u003cbr\u003e Attic\u003cbr\u003e Penthouse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e IV: Archives\u003cbr\u003e Travelogue\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Hidden references\u003cbr\u003e Alpha and Omega\u003cbr\u003e Given\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409230045527,"sku":"9781496219473","price":48.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496219473.jpg?v=1730506053","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/arkography-9781496219473","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}