From the Lighthouse: Interdisciplinary Reflections On Light

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Synopsis
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.
Copyright:
2018

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9781317131618
Related ISBNs:
9781315583570, 9781472477354, 9781472477354
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
selection and editorial matter, Veronica Strang, Tim Edensor and Joanna Puckering
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Social Studies
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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