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Geographies of Disorientation

Marcella Schmidt di Friedberg

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Description:Spatial disorientation is of significant relevance to our globalized world, provoking deep questions about our relationship with technology and the last remaining vestiges of our animal nature. Disorientation is a profoundly geographical theme that concerns our relationship with space, places, the body, emotions and time, as well as being a powerful and frequently recurring metaphor in art, philosophy and literature.Using multiple perspectives, lenses, methodological tools and scales, Geographies of Disorientation addressing questions such as: How do we orient ourselves? What are the cognitive and cultural instruments that we use to move through space? Why do we get lost? Two common threads run through the book: getting lost as a practice, explored within a post-phenomenological framework while discussing direct and indirect observation, wayfinding performances and the various methods and tools used to find our position in space; and disorientation as a metaphor for the contemporary era, used in a broad range of contexts to express the difficulty of finding points of reference in the world we live in.Drawing on a wide range of literatures, Geographies of Disorientation is a highly original and intruiging read which will be of interest to scholars of human geography, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, cognitive science, information technology and the communication sciences.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Geographies of Disorientation. To get started finding Geographies of Disorientation, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Spatial disorientation is of significant relevance to our globalized world, provoking deep questions about our relationship with technology and the last remaining vestiges of our animal nature. Disorientation is a profoundly geographical theme that concerns our relationship with space, places, the body, emotions and time, as well as being a powerful and frequently recurring metaphor in art, philosophy and literature.Using multiple perspectives, lenses, methodological tools and scales, Geographies of Disorientation addressing questions such as: How do we orient ourselves? What are the cognitive and cultural instruments that we use to move through space? Why do we get lost? Two common threads run through the book: getting lost as a practice, explored within a post-phenomenological framework while discussing direct and indirect observation, wayfinding performances and the various methods and tools used to find our position in space; and disorientation as a metaphor for the contemporary era, used in a broad range of contexts to express the difficulty of finding points of reference in the world we live in.Drawing on a wide range of literatures, Geographies of Disorientation is a highly original and intruiging read which will be of interest to scholars of human geography, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, cognitive science, information technology and the communication sciences.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Geographies of Disorientation. To get started finding Geographies of Disorientation, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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