The End of Airports
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| Rating | : | 4.66 (599 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1501305492 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 232 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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The End of Airports is not an obituary--it's more like an ode to terminals in the digital age.. In The End of Airports, Christopher Schaberg suggests that even as the epoch of flight approaches a threshold of banality, there are still mysteries to be unraveled around our aircraft and airfields. We no longer expect romantic experiences or sublime views, but just hope that we get from here to there with minimal hassle. Drawing from his own experiences working at an airport, as well as interpreting these spaces from the perspective of a cultural critic, Schaberg explores the secret lives of jet bridges, seating areas, concourses, and tarmac vehicles, showing how the ordinary objects of flight call for wonder and inquiry. If air travel was o
A fascinating read for anyone interested in airports and airplanes, but also for readers of cultural studies, media studies, and creative nonfiction.” Kathleen C. And yet his stories of working at them have traces of humor and fascination, revealing the type of behind-the-scenes knowledge that always feels a little bit exotic to the uninformed.” Publishers Weekly"Schaberg's provocative theme implies the end of our ability to appreciate airports as bustling and forward-looking spaces. Stewart, Professor of Anthropology, The University of Texas at Austin, USA“The golden age of air travel is over, but thanks to Schaberg the airport may become the new figure with which to think place, time, labor, leisure, organization, and communication, as well as hope, fatigue, loneliness, and desire-in other words, the most fundamental problems of life in late capitalism. A prescient requiem for contemporary airports
Robert Appelbaum said secured in a great tradition built up over the ages by great writers. On his way to an advanced degree in English literature, and a career as literary critic, Christopher Schaberg was waylaid by a need to make money – and soon enough to begin working as a man-of-all-trades for an airline at a small airport in Bozeman, Montana. It changed his . Schaberg Achieves Cruising Altitude in this Fantastic Book Have you ever flown in a plane? Then why haven't you bought this amazing book! Schaberg is one of the very few scholars who writes with you, the reader, in mind. You will never look at these ordinary-seeming parts of our world in the same way again. Modern things have all kinds o. I thought this was going to be the perfect book for me New Orleans and Montana: I thought this was going to be the perfect book for me! Sadly, it wasn't. I also thought he was going to more on the future of airports. Didn't see that either.
. He is the author of The Textual Life of Airports: Reading the Culture of Flight (2011, reprinted in paperback, 2013). Christopher Schaberg is Associate Professor of English & Environment at Loyola University New Orleans, USA