Jody Berland

North of Empire

Essays on the Cultural Technologies of Space

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Theorizes the relationship between nation, media, and globalization by way of Canadian cultural studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9780822342885
• ISBN-10: 082234288X
• Artikelnr.: 26552662

Autorenporträt

Jody Berland is Associate Professor of Humanities at York University and the editor of Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments 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