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No maps for these territories : cities, spaces, and archaeologies of the future in William Gibson / Karin Hoepker.
- Title
- No maps for these territories : cities, spaces, and archaeologies of the future in William Gibson / Karin Hoepker.
- Author
- Hoepker, Karin.
- Publication
- Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2011.
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- Description
- 254 pages; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Spatial practices, 1871-689X ; 12
- Uniform Title
- Spatial practices ; 12.
- Subject
- Gibson, William, 1948- > Criticism and interpretation
- Gibson, William, 1948-
- Gibson, William 1948-
- Gibson, William
- Gibson, William, (1948- ...) > Critique et interprétation
- Future, The, in literature
- Archaeology in literature
- Futur dans la littérature
- Archéologie dans la littérature
- Archaeology in literature
- Future, The, in literature
- Science-Fiction
- Stadt
- Zukunft
- Futurologie
- Science-Fiction
- Motiv
- Zukunft
- Science-fiction > Thèmes, motifs
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- A revision of the author's doctoral dissertation submitted in American studies at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-248) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: New Cartographies -- New Cartographers?; 1.1 A Proposal for an Archaeology of Future Spaces; 1.2 Real-and-Imagined Spaces; 2 A Short Introduction to Science Fiction since the 1980s: Contextualizing William Gibson; 2.1 The Novum and the Subject Object Shift; 2.2 Science Fiction and Postmodernism; 2.3 Cyberpunk; 2.4 William Gibson; 3 Sprawl Space; 3.1 Sprawl as Urban and Architectural Pattern; 3.2 Hypermart: Marketplaces and Street Level Interaction; 3.3 The Junk Collector: At the Finn's.
- 3.4 Geographies of Waste3.4.1 Kipple; 3.4.2 Gomi; 3.5 Generic Urbanity and Cognitive Mapping; 4 Junk Art -- Towards a spatial poetics; 4.1 Boxmakers: Navigation of the heteroclite; 4.2 Ekphrastic Fear; 4.3 Wunderkammer Poetics -- Architectonics of Meaning; 4.4 Death and the Labyrinth; 5 Space and Habitation: Century City II -- City within a City; 5.1 Sprawl Space as Habitat; 5.2 The Arcology -- Utopian Topographies; 5.3 Corporate Arcologies; 5.4 Turner's Tactics; 5.5 The Projects -- Arcologies Appropriated; 5.6 Sprawl and Homogenization: Enclaves and Envelopes.
- 6 Replascape -- Urban Nature and Artificial Landscaping6.1 Urban Landscapes and Picturesque Nature; 6.2 Replascape and Artificial Life; 6.3 Second Nature; 6.4 Replascape as Architecture; 7 The Malling of Space; 7.1 Mall Space: Container City; 7.2 The Bridge; 7.3 Franchise and Tourist Site: Bridge Space Revisited; 8 Conclusion: Pattern Recognition and the End of the Future; 9 Works Cited; Index.
- ISBN
- 9789042033535
- 9042033533
- 9789401200523
- 9401200521
- LCCN
- 2011501279
- OCLC
- 748576687
- SCSB-11888716
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library