UID:
almahu_9949386535502882
Format:
1 online resource (xv, 279 pages) :
,
illustrations
ISBN:
9780429535307
,
0429535309
,
9780429521836
,
0429521839
,
9780429550003
,
0429550006
,
9780429259654
,
0429259654
Series Statement:
Ambiances, atmospheres and sensory experiences of spaces
Content:
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. Humans have fundamental relationships with light and dark that shape their regular social patterns and rhythms, enabling them to make sense of the world. This book throws light' on the neglect of these social patterns to emphasize how the diverse values, meanings and influences of darkness have been rarely considered. It also examines the history of our relationship with the dark and highlights how normative attitudes towards it have emerged, while also emphasising its cultural complexity by considering a contemporary range of alternative experiences and practices. Challenging notions of darkness as negative, as the antithesis of illumination and enlightenment, this book explores the rich potential of darkness to stimulate our senses and deepen our understandings of different spaces, cultural experiences and creative engagements. Offering a rich exploration of an emergent field of study across the social sciences and humanities, this book will be useful for academics and students of cultural and media studies, design, geography, history, sociology and theatre who seek to investigate the creative, cultural and social dimensions of darkness.
Note:
Introduction / Tim Edensor, Nick Dunn -- Affordances of the night / April Nowell, Nancy Gonlin -- Shakespeare's darkness / Elisabeth Bronfen -- In the night garden / Alice Barnaby -- A brief history of artificial darkness and race / Noam M. Elcott -- Purda / Ankit Kumar -- Inuit's perception of darkness / Buy Bordin -- Darkness in video game landscapes / Rob Shaw -- Dancing in the darkness to The Darkness / Nina J. Morris -- Creatures of the night / Katrin Anna Lund -- Contact zones / Natalie Marr -- How does the dark sound? / Damien Masson -- Ghosts and empties / Simon Robinson -- Going dark / Martin Welton -- On darkness, duration and possibility / Shanti Sumartojo -- Darkness as canvas / Leni Schwendinger -- Designing with light and darkness / Chris Lowe, Philip Rafael -- Afterword / Nick Dunn, Tim Edensor.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Rethinking darkness. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021 ISBN 9780367201159
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9780429259654
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429259654
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