"The Work in the World " was first published in 1996. Minnesota
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The writing or reading or buying or selling or judging of a
written work is always at the same time the act of making a
place-or making places. The author creates a special sort of place
for his ideas; the reader, for her engagement with the author; the
bookseller, for the notion of books as property to be categorized
and sold; and so on. In this book, Michael R. Curry develops a
geography of this process, a theory of the nature of space and
places in written work.
"The Work in the World" focuses on a paradox at the heart of
this project: Although the written work is inextricably bound up in
the construction of the places in which it is written, read,
published, circulated, and cited, it nonetheless denies the
importance of places. As the product of modern modes of knowledge,
technology, and intellectual property, written work seems to say
instead that only the encompassing universal space of ideas,
objects, and commodities matters.
Distinctive for the way it views theories in geography and
science as fundamentally embedded in written works, "The Work in
the World" argues eloquently that the philosophical questions
raised by theories can only be addressed within the broader context
of the work.
Michael R. Curry is associate professor of geography at the
University of California, Los Angeles.
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