Intro -- No Maps for These Territories: Cities, Spaces, and Archaeologies of the Future in William Gibson -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: New Cartographies - New Cartographers? -- 1.1 A Proposal for an Archaeology of...
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Intro -- No Maps for These Territories: Cities, Spaces, and Archaeologies of the Future in William Gibson -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: New Cartographies - New Cartographers? -- 1.1 A Proposal for an Archaeology of Future Spaces -- 1.2 Real-and-Imagined Spaces -- 2 A Short Introduction to Science Fiction since the 1980s: Contextualizing William Gibson -- 2.1 The Novum and the Subject Object Shift -- 2.2 Science Fiction and Postmodernism -- 2.3 Cyberpunk -- 2.4 William Gibson -- 3 Sprawl Space -- 3.1 Sprawl as Urban and Architectural Pattern -- 3.2 Hypermart: Marketplaces and Street Level Interaction -- 3.3 The Junk Collector: At the Finn's -- 3.4 Geographies of Waste -- 3.4.1 Kipple -- 3.4.2 Gomi -- 3.5 Generic Urbanity and Cognitive Mapping -- 4 Junk Art - Towards a spatial poetics -- 4.1 Boxmakers: Navigation of the heteroclite -- 4.2 Ekphrastic Fear -- 4.3 Wunderkammer Poetics - Architectonics of Meaning -- 4.4 Death and the Labyrinth -- 5 Space and Habitation: Century City II - City within a City -- 5.1 Sprawl Space as Habitat -- 5.2 The Arcology - Utopian Topographies -- 5.3 Corporate Arcologies -- 5.4 Turner's Tactics -- 5.5 The Projects - Arcologies Appropriated -- 5.6 Sprawl and Homogenization: Enclaves and Envelopes -- 6 Replascape - Urban Nature and Artificial Landscaping -- 6.1 Urban Landscapes and Picturesque Nature -- 6.2 Replascape and Artificial Life -- 6.3 Second Nature -- 6.4 Replascape as Architecture -- 7 The Malling of Space -- 7.1 Mall Space: Container City -- 7.2 The Bridge -- 7.3 Franchise and Tourist Site: Bridge Space Revisited -- 8 Conclusion: Pattern Recognition and the End of the Future -- 9 Works Cited -- Index.
A revision of the author's doctoral dissertation submitted in American studies at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-248) and index
""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""1 Introduction: New Cartographies � New Cartographers?""; ""1.1 A Proposal for an Archaeology of Future Spaces""; ""1.2 Real-and-Imagined Spaces""; ""2 A Short Introduction to Science Fiction since the 1980s: Contextualizing William Gibson""; ""2.1 The Novum and the Subject Object Shift""; ""2.2 Science Fiction and Postmodernism""; ""2.3 Cyberpunk""; ""2.4 William Gibson""; ""3 Sprawl Space""; ""3.1 Sprawl as Urban and Architectural Pattern""
""3.2 Hypermart: Marketplaces and Street Level Interaction""""3.3 The Junk Collector: At the Finn�s""; ""3.4 Geographies of Waste""; ""3.4.1 Kipple""; ""3.4.2 Gomi""; ""3.5 Generic Urbanity and Cognitive Mapping""; ""4 Junk Art � Towards a spatial poetics""; ""4.1 Boxmakers: Navigation of the heteroclite""; ""4.2 Ekphrastic Fear""; ""4.3 Wunderkammer Poetics � Architectonics of Meaning""; ""4.4 Death and the Labyrinth""; ""5 Space and Habitation: Century City II � City within a City""; ""5.1 Sprawl Space as Habitat""; ""5.2 The Arcology � Utopian Topographies""
""5.3 Corporate Arcologies""""5.4 Turner�s Tactics""; ""5.5 The Projects � Arcologies Appropriated""; ""5.6 Sprawl and Homogenization: Enclaves and Envelopes""; ""6 Replascape � Urban Nature and Artificial Landscaping""; ""6.1 Urban Landscapes and Picturesque Nature""; ""6.2 Replascape and Artificial Life""; ""6.3 Second Nature""; ""6.4 Replascape as Architecture""; ""7 The Malling of Space""; ""7.1 Mall Space: Container City""; ""7.2 The Bridge""; ""7.3 Franchise and Tourist Site: Bridge Space Revisited""; ""8 Conclusion: Pattern Recognition and the End of the Future""
