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A PLACE MORE VOID Cultural Geographies + Rewriting the Earth Series Editors Paul Kingsbury, Simon Fraser University Arun Saldanha, University of Minnesota A PLACE MORE VOID Edited by Paul Kingsbury and Anna J. Secor University of Nebraska Press | Lincoln © 2021 by the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Names: Kingsbury, Paul (Paul Th omas), editor. | Secor, Anna Jean, editor. Title: A place more void / edited by Paul Kingsbury and Anna J. Secor. Description: Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, [2020] | Series: Cultural geographies + rewriting the earth | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifi ers: lccn 2020021094 isbn 9781496222633 (hardback) isbn 9781496223661 (paperback) isbn 9781496224354 (epub) isbn 9781496224361 (mobi) isbn 9781496224378 (pdf) Subjects: lcsh: Geography— Philosophy. | Nothing (Philosophy) Classifi cation: lcc g70 .p57 2020 | ddc 910.01— dc23 lc record available at https:// lccn .loc .gov /2020021094 Designed and set in Minion Pro by L. Auten. Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Into the Void 1 Paul Kingsbury and Anna J. Secor Part 1. Holes 1. Urban Renewal and the Actuality of Absence: Th e “Hole” (Trou) of Paris, 1973 29 Ulf Strohmayer 2. “Th e Crack in the Earth”: Environmentalism aft er Speleology 48 Kai Bosworth 3. Th e Vortex and the Void: Meta/Geophysics in Sedona 66 Keith Woodward and John Paul Jones III 4. Six Voids 87 Flora Parrott and Harriet Hawkins Part 2. Absences 5. Tracking Silence: Place, Embodiment, and Politics 103 Morgan Meyer 6. Th e Void and Its Summons: Subjectivity, Signs, and the Enigmatic 118 Mitch Rose 7. Derwent’s Ghost: Th e Haunting Silences of Geography at Harvard 132 Alison Mountz and Kira Williams 8. “It Watches You Vanish”: On Landscape and W. G. Sebald 150 John Wylie Part 3. Edges 9. enfolding: An Experimental geographical imagination system (gis) 167 Nick Lally and Luke Bergmann 10. Beyond the Feminine Void: Rethinking Sexuation through an Ettingerial Lens 181 Carmen Antreasian 11. Politics for the Impasse 199 Jess Linz and Anna J. Secor 12. Raising Sasquatch to the Place of the Cryptozoological Th ing 213 Oliver Keane and Paul Kingsbury Part 4. Voids 13. O(void): Excerpts from Lot a Long Ethnopoetics Project about the Colonial Geographies of Haida Gwaii 235 Sarah de Leeuw 14. Playing with Plenitude and Finitude: Attuning to a Mysterious Void of Being 249 Mikko Joronen 15. In the Void of Formalization: Th e Homology between Surplus Value and Surplus Jouissance 267 Ceren Özselçuk and Yahya M. Madra 16. Localizing the Void: From Material to Immaterial Materialism 285 Lucas Pohl Coda: A Void More Placed 303 Paul Kingsbury and Anna J. Secor Contributors 309 Index 315 Illustrations 1. Extract from Plan de Saint- Victor, 1551 33 2. Photograph of the construction of Baltard’s central Halles 35 3. Th e functionally emptied “Halles” 38 4. Th e “trou” (“hole”) of Paris 39 5. Film still from Ne touche pas 41 6. Map of myriad overlapping passageways of Jewel Cave National Monument 57 7. Tourist map of Sedona’s vortexes 70 8. Sanders’s voluntary nervous system 72 9. Sanders’s involuntary nervous system 73 10. Cartesian vortices 80 11. Descartes’s dotted subject 81 12. “Screen Shot 1” by Flora Parrott 86 13. “Screen Shot 2” by Flora Parrott 99 14. Bernie Krause recording wildlife sounds 107 15. Directions to One Square Inch of Silence 112 16. Two archetypes of spatial relations 170 17. Interpretation of drone strike 173 18. Animation stills of a map morphing 175 19. Phallic sexuation in relation to matrixial sexuation 184 20. Borderspace diagram 187 21. Borderlinking diagram 187 22. Th e Great Hall 216 ix
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