Jeff Malpas - The Intelligence of Place

The Intelligence of Place

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The Intelligence of Place

Topographies and Poetics

Edited by

Jeff Malpas

Bloomsbury Academic

An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Contents

Massimo Cacciari is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Vita-Salute San Raffaele in Milan, Italy. He has been a member of the Italian and European parliaments, and three times mayor of the city of Venice. He is the author of many books and essays, including, in English, The Unpolitical: On the Radical Critique of Political Reason (New York: Fordham University Press, 2009), and Posthumous People: Vienna at the Turning Point (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996).

Edward S. Casey is distinguished professor of Philosophy at SUNY, Stony Brook, New York, USA. He is the author of Getting Back into Place (2nd ed., Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009), The Fate of Place (2nd ed., Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013), and two other books on place. He is also the author of The World at a Glance (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007) and The World on Edge (forthcoming, Bloomington: Indiana University Press) as well as numerous articles on diverse topics.

Jessica Dubow is senior lecturer in Cultural Geography at the University of Sheffield, England. She is the author of Settling the Self: Colonial Space, Colonial Identity and the South African Landscape (Saarbrcken: VDM, 2009), and is presently working on a manuscript on the relationship of geography to philosophy in context of the twentieth-century Jewish European intellectual tradition. She has published widely across a range of journals including: Critical Inquiry, New German Critique, Art History, The Journal of Visual Culture, Comparative Literature and Parallax.

Lucy R. Lippard is the author of twenty-three books on contemporary art, cultural criticism and place, including The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society; On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art and Place; Down Country: The Tano of the Galisteo Basin, 12501782; and, most recently, Undermining: A Wild Ride though Land Use, Politics, and Art in the Changing West. She lives in Galisteo, New Mexico.

Jeff Malpas is distinguished professor at the University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, and visiting distinguished professor at Latrobe University, in Melbourne, Victoria. He is the author of Place and Experience (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999) and Heideggers Topology (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006), and has published extensively on topics ranging across art, architecture, film, geography and philosophy.

Joshua Meyrowitz is professor of Media Studies in the Department of Communication at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, United States, where he has won the Lindberg Award for Outstanding Scholar-Teacher in the College of Liberal Arts. He is the author of No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior (Oxford University Press, 1985) and has published scores of articles on media and society in scholarly journals and anthologies, as well as in general-interest publications.

Juhani Pallasmaa is an architect and Professor Emeritus at the Helsinki University of Technology, Finland. He has taught and lectured extensively in universities around the world, and held several visiting professorships in the United States. He has published numerous essays and forty-five books on architecture, design and arts, including The Embodied Image (2011), The Thinking Hand (2009), and The Eyes of the Skin (1996/2012).

Alberto Prez-Gmez studied architecture and practiced in Mexico City. In 1983 he became director of Carleton Universitys School of Architecture (Ottawa, Canada). Since 1987 he has occupied the Bronfman Chair at McGill University, in Montreal, Canada, where he founded the History and Theory post-graduate programmes. His books include Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1983; Hitchcock Award in 1984), Polyphilo (1992), Architectural Representation and the Perspective Hinge (1997), and Built upon Love: Architectural Longing after Ethics and Aesthetics (2006).

Edward Relph is Emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is the author of Place and Placelessness (London: Pion, 1976), a book apparently of widespread and enduring interest because it has been translated into several languages and was reprinted in 2010. His books and articles have explored humanistic geography, phenomenology, urban landscapes and sense of place. His most recent book is Toronto: Transformations in a City and Its Region (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014).

Kathleen Stewart is professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA. She writes on place, the senses, affect, non-representational theory, the ordinary, worlding and ethnographic writing as a form of theory. Her books include A Space on the Side of the Road: Cultural Poetics in an `Other America (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996), Ordinary Affects (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007) and Worldings (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, in preparation).

Susan Stewart is the Avalon Foundation University Professor in the Humanities, Professor of English, and director of the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Her most recent book of poems is Red Rover (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2008); her most recent book of prose is The Poets Freedom: A Notebook on Making (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2011).

Kenneth White was educated (classics, modern languages, philosophy) in Scotland, Germany and France. He held the chair of Twentieth Century Poetics at Paris-Sorbonne from 1983 to 1996. In 1989, he founded the International Institute of Geopoetics. Among other distinctions, he is the recipient of literary prizes such as the French Academys Grand Prix du Rayonnement Franais for his work as a whole. His most recent books in English are Ideas of Order at Cape Wrath (essays), The Winds of Vancouver (narrative), Latitudes and Longitudes (poems) published simultaneously in 2013 by Aberdeen University Press.

The original idea for this volume was that it should be a multi-authored monograph rather than an edited collection, and that its unity should derive, therefore, from the collaboration among different authorial voices rather than the work of a single editorial hand. Such an idea does not fit well with contemporary publishing practice, however, and what has resulted is indeed, in outer appearance at least, much more of a more conventional edited work. Nevertheless, the origins of the work in such a collaborative conception ought to give some sense of the importance of the contributors whose work is gathered within the volume. This is very much a collection, not merely of different