Postmodern Cartographies: The Geographical Imagination in Contemporary American Culture

Abstract

Part 1 Introduction - a brief history of space. Part 2 Post-industrial landscapes - space and the social sciences: all's well in the warfare state - Daniel Bell how I learned to stop worrying and love the media - Marshall McLuhan everything solid melts into signs - Jean Baudrillard a mapping the left. Part 3 Plotting postmodern landscapes - space and fiction: mapping Jameson's postmodernism Pynchon's notes from underground reflections on the City of Glass - Paul Auster remembering machine dreams - Jayne Anne Phillips burning down the house - race and place in Toni Morrison's fiction. Part 4 Reel places - space and cinema: the place of New Age science fiction film the noir charisma of placelessness - Blade Runner mapping the body (i) - gynophobia and the corporeal cartography of consumerism in Alien mapping the body (ii) - Terminator, remuscularization and the technology of fathering David Lynch in cherry-pie heaven American autoscapes - Christine, Thelma and Louise. Part 5 Conclusion - listening to the storied earth.

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