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Traveling in Place (Hardcover)
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Traveling in Place (Hardcover)
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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 standing up from
the couch. 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. Organized into
twenty-one "legs" - or short chapters - Traveling in Place begins
with a consideration of Xavier de Maistre's 1794 Voyage autour de
ma chambre, an account of the forty-two-day "journey around his
room" Maistre undertook as a way to entertain himself while under
house arrest. Stiegler is fascinated by the notion of exploring the
familiar as though it were completely new and strange. He engages
writers as diverse as Roussel, Beckett, Perec, Robbe-Grillet,
Cortazar, Kierkegaard, and Borges, all of whom show how the
everyday can be brilliantly transformed. 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.
Reminiscent of the pictorial meditations of Sebald, but possessed
of the intellectual playfulness of Calvino, Traveling in Place
offers an entertaining and creative Baedeker to journeying at home.
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