Book Review: The Textual Life of Airports: Reading the Culture of Flight

• Autores: Theodore Vurdubakis
• Localización: Organization studies, ISSN 0170-8406, Vol. 34, Nº Extra 10, 2013 (Ejemplar dedicado a: New Sites/Sights: Exploring the White Spaces of Organization), págs. 1570-1571
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Airports are sites that appear to refuse what Whitehead has termed �simple location�. They are events in code/space (Kitchin & Dodge, 2011); conduits in a space of flows (Castells, 1996); non-places which exist solely in anticipation of other places (Augé, 1995). Airports also exist in our cultural practices and literary imagings. In a play on the double meaning of �airport-reading� � both as the undemanding reading that helps pass time in airports and as the reading of airports themselves � The textual life of airports sets out to explore its subject in terms of the co-shapings, enfoldings and complicities of site and text. Schaberg sees such airport readings as constituents of a common process, the process through which the cultural legibility of airports is established. More specifically, he is interested in the ways in which literature and its reading practices shape how we imagine, and how we come to inhabit, airports. �