Space is a central topic in cultural and narrative theory today, although in most cases theory assumes Newtonian absolute space. However, the idea of a universal homogeneous space is now obsolete. Black holes, multiple dimensions, quantum...
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Space is a central topic in cultural and narrative theory today, although in most cases theory assumes Newtonian absolute space. However, the idea of a universal homogeneous space is now obsolete. Black holes, multiple dimensions, quantum entanglement, and spatio-temporal distortions of relativity have passed into culture at large. This book examines whether narrative can be used to represent these ""impossible"" spaces.Impossible topologies abound in ancient mythologies, from the Australian Aborigines' ""dream-time"" to the multiple-layer universe of the Sumerians. More recently, from Alice's
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Introduction I: Space; Everyday Weirdness; Grasping the Ungraspable; Two-In-One; Life in a Void; Evolution of Dissent; "Melting into Air"; Quantum Disarray; Heterotopia, Utopia, Atopia; The Space we live in; The Time we live in; Introduction II: Time; Speaking of (In) Time; Worlds-Possible and Otherwise; The Literal and the Metaphorical; In Defense of Typology; What is in This Book; What is not in this Book; 1. Layering; Or the City of Two Tales; From Sanitation to Steampunk; The Body of Power
The Museum and the Haunted House"A Dream of Demon Heads"; Adventures in Anatomy; Earth, Wind, and Fire; Spaces of Exception; 2. Flickering; Or Ghosts of Space; Butterfly-Wing Worlds; Fictions of Radical Doubt; Marxism and Ghosts; Spectral Translations; Islands of Ambiguity; Crawling Women and Solitary Men; The Rivers of Babel; The East of the West, the West of the East; Political Geometries; The World is (Not) Flat; The Haunted Footnote; Postscript: The Archipelago of Dreams; 3. Embedding; Or the Pocket Universe; The Aleph; The Poetics of the Fossil; History and History
Class War under the MicroscopeEdging into the Future; The Libertarian Bobble; The Goddess on a Date; Partying in the Dustbin; The Quantum Paris; 4. Wormholing; Or the Darkness Within; The Child in the Cellar; Lost in Space; The Discursive Samurai; Concentration City; Conquering Chaos; Springtime in the Zone; The Island of Time and the Ring of Eternity; The Planet of Torment; Embracing the Zone; The Dream of Failure; 5. Sidestepping; Or Dimensions of Divinity; Mr. Mudge in N-Space; "Spirits in the Material World"; The Gospel of a Square; The Second Mrs. Adam; Machinery of Time
The Four-Dimensional LeviathanTopologies of Adventure; Post-Infinity; The Book of Sand; Of Red Moons and Retired Astronauts; 6. Collapsing; Or Urban Black Holes; Narrative Implosions; Cities of Pain; Freud's Flânerie; Undergrounds and Over-Worlds; History in the Basement; Mind the Gap; Amnesiac Cities; The City and the City and the City . .; The City of Two Moons; Lotus Village; From Big Brother to Little People; At Home in the Singularity; Postscript: "A King of Infinite Space"; Notes; References; Index
