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Camouflage

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ISBN-10: 0262622009

ISBN-13: 9780262622004

Edition: 2006

Authors: Neil Leach

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We human beings are governed by the urge to conform and blend in with our surroundings. We follow fashion. We become part of cultures of conformity--religious communities, military groups, sports teams; we take on corporate identities. Likewise, we seem to have the capacity to grow into our built environment, to familiarize ourselves with it, and eventually to find ourselves at home there. We have a chameleonlike urge to adapt, and, given the increasing mobility of contemporary life, we are constantly having to do so. The desire for camouflage is a desire to feel connected--to find our place in the world and to feel at home. In CamouflageNeil Leach analyzes this desire and its consequences…    
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Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 6/9/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 7.13" wide x 9.00" long x 0.68" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Mimesis
Sensuous Correspondence
Sympathetic Magic
Mimicry
Becoming
Death
Narcissism
Identity
Paranoia
Belonging
Sacrifice
Melancholia
Ecstasy
Conclusion: A Theory of Camouflage
Notes
Index of Names
Illustrations
New York, 1979
On Being an Angel, Providence, Rhode Island, Spring 1977
Roma, May 1977-August 1978
Space[superscript 2], Providence, Rhode Island, 1975-1976
Roma, May 1977-August 1978
House #4, Providence, Rhode Island, 1975-1976
From Angel Series, Italy, May 1977-August 1978
Stanwood, Washington, Summer 1979
Providence, Rhode Island, 1976
From A Woman-A Mirror-A Woman Is a Mirror for a Man, Providence, Rhode Island, 1975-1978
Space[superscript 2], Providence, Rhode Island, 1975-1976
House #3, Providence, Rhode Island, 1975-1978
Space[superscript 2], Providence, Rhode Island, 1975-1976
Then at one point I did not need to translate the notes; they went directly to my hands, Providence, Rhode Island, c. 1976
New York, 1980
Providence, Rhode Island, 1975-1976
New York, 1979
From Angel Series, Roma, September 1977