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Airportness: The Nature of Flight
Contributor(s): Schaberg, Christopher (Author)
ISBN: 1501325698     ISBN-13: 9781501325694
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
OUR PRICE:   $24.26  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: September 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory
- Literary Criticism | Comparative Literature
- Nature | Ecology
Dewey: 387.736
LCCN: 2017005080
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.1" W x 7.7" (0.50 lbs) 200 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Ecology
 
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Publisher Description:
Airportness takes the reader on a single day's journey through all the routines and stages of an ordinary flight. From curbside to baggage, and pondering the minutes and hours of sitting in between, Christopher Schaberg contemplates the mundane world of commercial aviation to discover "the nature of flight." For Schaberg this means hearing planes in the sky, recognizing airline symbols in unlikely places, and navigating the various zones of transit from sliding doors, to jet bridge, to lavatory. It is an ongoing, swarming ecosystem that unfolds each day as we fly, get stranded, and arrive at our destinations. Airportness turns out to be more than just architecture and design elements-rather, it is all the rumble and buzz of flight, the tedium of travel as well as the feelings of uplift.

Contributor Bio(s): Schaberg, Christopher: - Christopher Schaberg is Associate Professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans, USA. He is the author of The Textual Life of Airports: Reading the Culture of Flight (2013) and co-editor of Deconstructing Brad Pitt (2014). He is series co-editor (Ian Bogost) of the series Object Lessons.