The Memory of Place: A Phenomenology of the Uncanny

Name: The Memory of Place: A Phenomenology of the Uncanny
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ISBN: 9780821420393

ISBN-10: 0821420399

ISBN-13: 9780821420393

Edition: 2013

Authors: Dylan Trigg

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From the frozen landscapes of the Antarctic to the haunted houses of childhood, the memory of places we experience is fundamental to a sense of self. Drawing on influences as diverse as Merleau-Ponty, Freud, and J. G. Ballard, The Memory of Place charts the memorial landscape that is written into the body and its experience of the world.Dylan Trigg’s The Memory of Place offers a lively and original intervention into contemporary debates within “place studies,” an interdisciplinary field at the intersection of philosophy, geography, architecture, urban design, and environmental studies. Through a series of provocative investigations, Trigg analyzes monuments in the representation of public…

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List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Ohio Univ Pr
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 386
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface: Touching the Past


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Phenomenology and Place


A Phenomenology of Place


Body Memory


Embodiment and Phenomenology


Placing Phenomenology



Second Seeing



The Life-World



The Uncanny



Descriptiveness


The Phenpmenological Method



From Place to Memory



Between memory and Imagination


Scene and Surrounding


The Memory of Place


Journeying Toward Slovenia


Dreaming of Place


Memory as a Rediscovery



Monuments of Memory


From Memory to History


Placing Narratives


A Phenomenology of the Chattri


Memory, Meaning, Materiality


A Texture of Death



From Flesh to Materiality



Memories of the Flesh


The Lived-Body


Inside and Outside


The Absolute Here


The Memory of Airports


Against Non-Places


Wild Being


Journeying Toward the Service Station


Light, Shadow, Texture


Anxious Embodiment


Alien Flesh



The Dark Entity


Place-Making


A Phenomenology of Nostalgia


Homesickness


Spatial Morphology


An Uncanny Return


The Dark Entity



From Black Holes to Specters



Traumatic Embodiment


The Event Horizon


(Re)claiming Experience


The Skin of Memory


The Phantom Zone



Ruins of Trauma


Abnormal Embodiment


Memories of Nightmares


Taumatized Materiality


A Disturbance of Memory


Conclusion: This Place Is Haunted


Ghost H(a)unting


The Doppelgï¿½nger


Phantom Memory


An Uncanny Mood


The Haunting


References


Index