Dark Writing: Geography, Performance, Design 9780824862145

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Dark Writing: Geography, Performance, Design
 9780824862145

Table of contents :
Contents
Figures
Plates
Preface: The Great Divide
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Outlines
Chapter 1: Step-by-Step: Geography’s Myth
Chapter 2: Dark with Excess of Bright: Mapping the Coastlines of Knowledge
Chapter 3: Drawing the Line: Putting Spatial History into Practice
Chapter 4: The Interpretation of Dreams: Mobilizing the Papunya Tula Painting Movement, 1971–1972
Chapter 5: Making Tracks: Interpreting a Ground Plan
Chapter 6: Solutions: Storyboarding a Humid Zone
Chapter 7: Trace: A Running Commentary on Relay
Chapter 8: Dark Writing: The Body’s Inscription in History’s Light
Conclusion: Linings
Bibliography
Index

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