Christopher Schaberg

Airportness (eBook, ePUB)

The Nature of Flight

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Airportness takes the reader on a single day's journey through all the routines and stages of an ordinary flight. From curbside to baggage, and pondering the minutes and hours of sitting in between, Christopher Schaberg contemplates the mundane world of commercial aviation to discover "the nature of flight." For Schaberg this means hearing planes in the sky, recognizing airline symbols in unlikely places, and navigating the various zones of transit from sliding doors, to jet bridge, to lavatory. It is an ongoing, swarming ecosystem that unfolds each day as we fly, get stranded, and arrive at our destinations. Airportness turns out to be more than just architecture and design elements-rather, it is all the rumble and buzz of flight, the tedium of travel as well as the feelings of uplift.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501325717
• Artikelnr.: 48803707

Autorenporträt

Christopher Schaberg is Director of the Program in Public Scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis, USA, and the author of The Textual Life of Airports (2012), The End of Airports (2015), Airportness (2017), The Work of Literature in an Age of Post-Truth (2018), Searching for the Anthropocene (2019), Pedagogy of the Depressed (2021), and Adventure: An Argument for Limits (2023), all published by Bloomsbury. He is also the founding co-editor (with Ian Bogost) of Bloomsbury's Object Lessons book series.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Preflight2. Ride to the Airport3. Curbside4. Boarding Pass5. Security6. Walk to the Gate7. People Watching8. Attack9. Waiting10. Workers11. Art12. Gate Change13. Gate Lice14. Fishing Shirts15. Runway16. Holding17. Takeoff18. Window Seat19. Sunrise20. Armrests21. New Planes22. Airplane Reading I23. Consider the Lavatory24. Snacking25. Initial Descent26. Connection27. Play28. Sparrows29. Twitter30. Breakfast31. 74732. Colin Farrell33. In-flight Entertainment I: Somewhere34. In-flight Entertainment II: The Force Awakens35. Airplane Reading II36. Plane Sighting37. Higher Still38. Entanglements39. In-flight Entertainment III: United 9340. Old Planes41. Gender42. Water Landing43. Arrival44. Destination45. Baggage46. Exit47. HomeAcknowledgmentsBibliography Index

Rezensionen

Schaberg has singlehandedly invented the rapidly ascending field of airport studies. Times Higher Education