Publisher:
<<The>> University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill. [u.a.]
"Armchair travel may seem like an oxymoron. Doesn't travel require us to leave the house? And yet, anyone who has lost herself for hours in the descriptive pages of a novel or the absorbing images of a film knows the very real feeling of having...
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"Armchair travel may seem like an oxymoron. Doesn't travel require us to leave the house? And yet, anyone who has lost herself for hours in the descriptive pages of a novel or the absorbing images of a film knows the very real feeling of having explored and experienced a different place or time without ever leaving her seat. No passport, no currency, no security screening required--the luxury of armchair travel is accessible to us all. In Traveling in Place, Bernd Stiegler celebrates this convenient, magical means of transport in all its many forms. Like the best guidebooks, Traveling in Place is more interested in the idea of travel as a state of mind than as a physical activity, and Stiegler reflects on the different ways that traveling at home have manifested themselves in the modern era, from literature and film to the virtual possibilities of the Internet, blogs, and contemporary art." --(Publisher website.)
""Contents""; ""Brief Travel Guide""; ""First Leg - The Journey around the Room""; ""Second Leg - Pilgrimages""; ""Third Leg - The “Frauenzimmer�""; ""Fourth Leg - Expeditions in the Near- at- Hand""; ""Fifth Leg - Framed Views""; ""Sixth Leg - The Life of Plants""; ""Seventh Leg - The Life of Objects""; ""Eighth Leg - The Journey through a Sea of Images""; ""Ninth Leg - Dark Chambers""; ""Tenth Leg - Interiors""; ""Eleventh Leg- The Flaneur""; ""Excurion and Stopover - Around the World in 80 Days""; ""Twelfth Leg - Peregrinations""; ""Thirteenth Leg - Travels with a Room""
