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From the Lighthouse: Interdisciplinary Reflections on Light

By Tim Edensor , Veronica Strang , Joanna Puckering

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2020
ISBN
0367591324, 9780367591328
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
5 MB (5385675 bytes)
Pages
292\0
Time added
2022-07-12 13:07:09

Description

What is a lighthouse? What does it mean? What does it do? This book shows how exchanging knowledge across disciplinary boundaries can transform our thinking. Adopting an unconventional structure, this book involves the reader in a multivocal conversation between scholars, poets and artists. Seen through their individual perspectives, lighthouses appear as signals of safety, beacons of enlightenment, phallic territorial markers, and memorials of historical relationships with the sea. However, the interdisciplinary conversation also reveals underlying and sometimes unexpected connections. It elucidates the human and non-human evolutionary adaptations that use light for signalling and warning; the visual languages created by regularity and synchronicity in pulses of light; how lighthouses have generated a whole ‘family’ of related material objects and technologies; and the way that light flows between social and material worlds.

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