{"product_id":"north-of-empire-9780822343066","title":"North of Empire","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDemonstrating the importance of space to understanding culture, this title investigates how media technologies have shaped locality, territory, landscape, boundary, nature, music, and time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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. \u003ci\u003eNorth of Empire\u003c\/i\u003e is a grand statement of her theoretical and political positions and a wonderful reservoir drawn from her rich research. It will be a landmark.”—\u003cb\u003eToby Miller\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eMakeover Nation: The United States of Reinvention\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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. \u003ci\u003eNorth of Empire\u003c\/i\u003e shows us how to think profoundly, again, about space and why it matters.”—\u003cb\u003eMeaghan Morris\u003c\/b\u003e, Lingnan University (Hong Kong) and University of Sydney (Australia)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Mapping North of Empire 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Writing on the Border 29\u003cbr\u003e 2. Space at the Margins: Colonial Spatiality and Critical Theory after Innis 65\u003cbr\u003e 3. Spatial Narratives in the Canadian Imaginary 98\u003cbr\u003e 4. Angels Dancing: Cultural Technologies and the Production of Space 130\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Musicking Machine 165\u003cbr\u003e 6. Locating Listening 185\u003cbr\u003e 7. Weathering the North 210\u003cbr\u003e 8. Mapping Space: Imagining Technologies and the Planetary Body 242\u003cbr\u003e 9. Cultural Technologies and the \"Evolution\" of Technological Cultures 273\u003cbr\u003e Postscript 300\u003cbr\u003e Notes 309\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 341\u003cbr\u003e Index 369","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406052958551,"sku":"9780822343066","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822343066.jpg?v=1730494372","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/north-of-empire-9780822343066","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}