Rethinking Darkness: Cultures, Histories, Practices

ISBN-13: 9780367569426 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 300 str.

Nick Dunn; Tim Edensor

Opis

This book examines the concept of darkness through a range of cultures, histories, practices and experiences. It engages with darkness beyond its binary positioning against light to advance a critical understanding of the ways in which darkness can be experienced, practised and conceptualised.

Spis treści

Introduction Venturing into the Dark: Gloomy Multiplicities Part 1: Histories of The Dark 1. Affordances of the Night: Work After Dark in the Ancient World 2. Shakespeare’s Darkness: A Stage and State of Mind 3. In the Night Garden: Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, London 1800-1859 4. A Short History of Artificial Darkness and Race Part 2: Cultural Practices in the Dark 5. Purda: The Curtain of Darkness 6. Inuit’s Perception of Darkness: A Singular Feature 7. Darkness in Videogame Landscapes: Corporeal and Representational Entanglements 8. Dancing in The Darkness To The Darkness Part 3: Sensing Darkness 9. Creatures of The Night: Bodies, Rhythms And Aurora Borealis 10. Contact Zones: The Galloway Forest Dark Sky Park as Creative Milieu 11. How Does the Dark Sound? 12. Ghosts and Empties Part 4: Designing with Darkness 13. Going Dark: The Theatrical Legacy of Battersea Art Centre’s Playing In The Dark Season 14. On Darkness, Duration and Possibility 15. Darkness as Canvas 16. Designing with Light and Darkness Afterword Revisiting the Dark: Diverse Encounters and Experiences