No maps for these territories : cities, spaces, and archaeologies of the future in William Gibson / / Karin Hoepker.

• Superior document: Spatial practices : an interdisciplinary series in cultural history, geography and literature, 12
• Author: Hoepker, Karin.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Spatial practices ; 12.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (252 p.)
• Notes: A revision of the author's doctoral dissertation submitted in American studies at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg.

No Maps for These Territories offers an archaeology of seemingly tried and trusted concepts: cartography, architecture, urban space. While rethinking Michel Foucault’s theories, Karin Hoepker reconstructs the cartographic dispositives of spatial order. The futuristic fictional cityscapes of science fiction writer William Gibson are the touchstone for this epistemological analysis and typology of spatial formations. In seven probing chapters that focus on architectural blueprints, forms of inhabitation, Wunderkammern , and economic formations of retail, consumption, and entertainment such as shopping malls, amusement parks, and gambling meccas, Hoepker investigates a set of exemplary phenomena crucial to the fields of architecture, geography, philosophy, cartography, history of science, literary studies, and the arts. No Maps for These Territories thus offers close readings of fictional, philosophical, and theoretical texts, and examines instructive examples of the workings of spatial production. In a form of contrastive writing, the monograph sheds critical light on theoretical and fictional texts equally.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: New Cartographies – New Cartographers? -- A Short Introduction to Science Fiction since the 1980's: Contextualizing William Gibson -- Sprawl Space -- Junk Art – Towards a spatial poetics -- Space and Habitation: Century City II – City within a City -- Replascape – Urban Nature and Artificial Landscaping -- The Malling of Space -- Pattern Recognition and the End of the Future -- Works Cited -- Index.