Spatial disorientation is of key relevance to our globalized world,
eliciting complex questions about our relationship with technology
and the last remaining vestiges of our animal nature. Viewed more
broadly, disorientation is a profoundly geographical theme that
concerns our relationship with space, places, the body, emotions,
and time, as well as being a powerful and frequently recurring
metaphor in art, philosophy, and literature. Using multiple
perspectives, lenses, methodological tools, and scales, Geographies
of Disorientation addresses questions such as: How do we orient
ourselves? What are the cognitive and cultural instruments that we
use to move through space? Why do we get lost? Two main threads run
through the book: getting lost as a practice, explored within a
post-phenomenological framework in relation to direct and indirect
observation, wayfinding performances, and the various methods and
tools used to find our position in space; and disorientation as a
metaphor for the contemporary era, used in a broad range of
contexts to express the difficulty of finding points of reference
in the world we live in. Drawing on a wide range of literature,
Geographies of Disorientation is a highly original and intruiging
read which will be of interest to scholars of human geography,
philosophy, sociology, anthropology, cognitive science, information
technology, and the communication sciences.
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