A Place More Void

343 Pages·2021·12.423 MB·English

by  Paul Kingsbury (editor), Anna J. Secor (editor)

A PLACE MORE VOID
Cultural Geographies
+ Rewriting the Earth
Series Editors
Paul Kingsbury, Simon Fraser University
Arun Saldanha, University of Minnesota
A PLACE
MORE VOID
Edited by Paul Kingsbury and Anna J. Secor
University of Nebraska Press | Lincoln
© 2021 by the Board of Regents of the
University of Nebraska
All rights reserved
Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data
Names: Kingsbury, Paul (Paul Th omas), editor. |
Secor, Anna Jean, editor.
Title: A place more void / edited by
Paul Kingsbury and Anna J. Secor.
Description: Lincoln: University of Nebraska
Press, [2020] | Series: Cultural geographies +
rewriting the earth | Includes bibliographical
references and index.
Identifi ers: lccn 2020021094
isbn 9781496222633 (hardback)
isbn 9781496223661 (paperback)
isbn 9781496224354 (epub)
isbn 9781496224361 (mobi)
isbn 9781496224378 (pdf)
Subjects: lcsh: Geography— Philosophy. |
Nothing (Philosophy)
Classifi cation: lcc g70 .p57 2020 |
ddc 910.01— dc23
lc record available at
https:// lccn .loc .gov /2020021094
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Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Into the Void 1
Paul Kingsbury and Anna J. Secor
Part 1. Holes
1. Urban Renewal and the Actuality of Absence:
Th e “Hole” (Trou) of Paris, 1973 29
Ulf Strohmayer
2. “Th e Crack in the Earth”:
Environmentalism aft er Speleology 48
Kai Bosworth
3. Th e Vortex and the Void:
Meta/Geophysics in Sedona 66
Keith Woodward and John Paul Jones III
4. Six Voids 87
Flora Parrott and Harriet Hawkins
Part 2. Absences
5. Tracking Silence:
Place, Embodiment, and Politics 103
Morgan Meyer
6. Th e Void and Its Summons:
Subjectivity, Signs, and the Enigmatic 118
Mitch Rose
7. Derwent’s Ghost: Th e Haunting Silences of
Geography at Harvard 132
Alison Mountz and Kira Williams
8. “It Watches You Vanish”:
On Landscape and W. G. Sebald 150
John Wylie
Part 3. Edges
9. enfolding: An Experimental geographical
imagination system (gis) 167
Nick Lally and Luke Bergmann
10. Beyond the Feminine Void: Rethinking
Sexuation through an Ettingerial Lens 181
Carmen Antreasian
11. Politics for the Impasse 199
Jess Linz and Anna J. Secor
12. Raising Sasquatch to the Place of the
Cryptozoological Th ing 213
Oliver Keane and Paul Kingsbury
Part 4. Voids
13. O(void): Excerpts from Lot a Long
Ethnopoetics Project about the
Colonial Geographies of Haida Gwaii 235
Sarah de Leeuw
14. Playing with Plenitude and Finitude:
Attuning to a Mysterious Void of Being 249
Mikko Joronen
15. In the Void of Formalization:
Th e Homology between Surplus
Value and Surplus Jouissance 267
Ceren Özselçuk and Yahya M. Madra
16. Localizing the Void: From Material to
Immaterial Materialism 285
Lucas Pohl
Coda: A Void More Placed 303
Paul Kingsbury and Anna J. Secor
Contributors 309
Index 315

Illustrations
1. Extract from Plan de Saint- Victor, 1551 33
2. Photograph of the construction of
Baltard’s central Halles 35
3. Th e functionally emptied “Halles” 38
4. Th e “trou” (“hole”) of Paris 39
5. Film still from Ne touche pas 41
6. Map of myriad overlapping passageways
of Jewel Cave National Monument 57
7. Tourist map of Sedona’s vortexes 70
8. Sanders’s voluntary nervous system 72
9. Sanders’s involuntary nervous system 73
10. Cartesian vortices 80
11. Descartes’s dotted subject 81
12. “Screen Shot 1” by Flora Parrott 86
13. “Screen Shot 2” by Flora Parrott 99
14. Bernie Krause recording wildlife sounds 107
15. Directions to One Square Inch of Silence 112
16. Two archetypes of spatial relations 170
17. Interpretation of drone strike 173
18. Animation stills of a map morphing 175
19. Phallic sexuation in relation to
matrixial sexuation 184
20. Borderspace diagram 187
21. Borderlinking diagram 187
22. Th e Great Hall 216
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