Description
Book SynopsisDemonstrating the importance of space to understanding culture, this title investigates how media technologies have shaped locality, territory, landscape, boundary, nature, music, and time.
Trade Review“Since its inception, cultural studies has gained a great deal from Canadian writers, in part because of the particular perch they occupy over the behemoth below them. Jody Berland has been one of those distinguished authors.
North of Empire is a grand statement of her theoretical and political positions and a wonderful reservoir drawn from her rich research. It will be a landmark.”—
Toby Miller, author of
Makeover Nation: The United States of Reinvention“This is a major work by one of the most original and influential thinkers working on the intersection of communication with cultural studies in the world today. Jody Berland is a writer of intense clarity and beautiful style, with an astonishing capacity to move fluidly between aesthetic, social, political, historical and technical frames of thought.
North of Empire shows us how to think profoundly, again, about space and why it matters.”—
Meaghan Morris, Lingnan University (Hong Kong) and University of Sydney (Australia)
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi
Introduction: Mapping North of Empire 1
1. Writing on the Border 29
2. Space at the Margins: Colonial Spatiality and Critical Theory after Innis 65
3. Spatial Narratives in the Canadian Imaginary 98
4. Angels Dancing: Cultural Technologies and the Production of Space 130
5. The Musicking Machine 165
6. Locating Listening 185
7. Weathering the North 210
8. Mapping Space: Imagining Technologies and the Planetary Body 242
9. Cultural Technologies and the "Evolution" of Technological Cultures 273
Postscript 300
Notes 309
Bibliography 341
Index 369
