Airportness

The Nature of Flight

AvChristopher Schaberg

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-09-21
Mått:127 x 197 x undefined mm
Vikt:322 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:196
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781501325700

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Böcker om flyg inom Sport, fritid och hobby
Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Transportindustri inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap

Mer om författaren

Christopher Schaberg is Associate Professor of English and Environmental Studies at Loyola University New Orleans, USA, where he teaches courses on contemporary literature and nonfiction, cultural studies, and environmental theory. He is the author of The Textual Life of Airports: Reading the Culture of Flight (2013) and The End of Airports (2015) and co-editor of Deconstructing Brad Pitt (2014). He is series co-editor (with Ian Bogost) of Bloomsbury's Object Lessons.

Recensioner i media

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

Innehållsförteckning

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