Airportness: The Nature of Flight

ISBN-13: 9781501325694 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 200 str.

Christopher Schaberg

Opis

The term "airportness" has been used to describe the architectural feel of modern terminals and concourses. In his third book about airports, Christopher Schaberg argues that airportness is not just a way of thinking about design, but also the feelings and sensations related to everyday patterns of flight. It is seeing planes in the sky, recognizing vague roars from above, and interpreting the routines of air travel-from sliding doors, to jet bridge, to lavatory. Airportness: The Nature of Flight departs from where The End of Airports left off, speculating about the future of flight and contemplating aircraft as they appear in a variety of contexts. Airportness explores how planes have become surprisingly natural objects: experienced as unquestionable set pieces, props, and passages...airportness is the rumbling background noise of the jet age.

Recenzje

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

Spis treści

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. HomeAcknowledgmentsBibliographyIndex

O autorze

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.