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From the Lighthouse: Interdisciplinary Reflections on Light (Hardcover)
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From the Lighthouse: Interdisciplinary Reflections on Light (Hardcover)
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What is a lighthouse? What does it mean? What does it do? This book
shows how exchanging knowledge across disciplinary boundaries can
transform our thinking. Adopting an unconventional structure, this
book involves the reader in a multivocal conversation between
scholars, poets and artists. Seen through their individual
perspectives, lighthouses appear as signals of safety, beacons of
enlightenment, phallic territorial markers, and memorials of
historical relationships with the sea. However, the
interdisciplinary conversation also reveals underlying and
sometimes unexpected connections. It elucidates the human and
non-human evolutionary adaptations that use light for signalling
and warning; the visual languages created by regularity and
synchronicity in pulses of light; how lighthouses have generated a
whole 'family' of related material objects and technologies; and
the way that light flows between social and material worlds.
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