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Rethinking Darkness: Cultures, Histories, Practices book cover

1st Edition

Rethinking Darkness Cultures, Histories, Practices

Edited By Nick Dunn, Tim Edensor Copyright 2021
300 Pages 35 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

300 Pages 35 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

300 Pages 35 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book examines the concept of darkness through a range of cultures, histories, practices and experiences. It engages with darkness beyond its binary positioning against light to advance a critical understanding of the ways in which darkness can be experienced, practised and conceptualised. Humans have fundamental relationships with light and dark that shape their regular social patterns... Read more

Introduction
Venturing into the Dark: Gloomy Multiplicities
Tim Edensor and Nick Dunn

Part 1: Histories of The Dark

1. Affordances of the Night: Work After Dark in the Ancient World
April Nowell and Nancy Gonlin

2. Shakespeare’s Darkness: A Stage and State of Mind
Elisabeth Bronfen

3. In the Night Garden: Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, London 1800-1859
Alice Barnaby

4. A Short History of Artificial Darkness and Race
Noam M. Elcott

Part 2: Cultural Practices in the Dark

5. Purda: The Curtain of Darkness
Ankit Kumar

6. Inuit’s Perception of Darkness: A Singular Feature
Guy Bordin

7. Darkness in Videogame Landscapes: Corporeal and Representational Entanglements
Rob Shaw

8. Dancing in The Darkness To The Darkness
Nina J. Morris

Part 3: Sensing Darkness

9. Creatures of The Night: Bodies, Rhythms And Aurora Borealis
Katrin Lund

10. Contact Zones: The Galloway Forest Dark Sky Park as Creative Milieu
Natalie Marr

11. How Does the Dark Sound?
Damien Masson

12. Ghosts and Empties
Simon Robinson

Part 4: Designing with Darkness

13. Going Dark: The Theatrical Legacy of Battersea Art Centre’s Playing In The Dark Season
Martin Welton

14. On Darkness, Duration and Possibility
Shanti Sumartojo

15. Darkness as Canvas
Leni Schwendinger

16. Designing with Light and Darkness
Chris Lowe and Philip Rafael

Afterword
Revisiting the Dark: Diverse Encounters and Experiences
Nick Dunn and Tim Edensor

Biography

Nick Dunn is Professor of Urban Design and Executive Director of Imagination, the design research lab at Lancaster University, UK. He is senior fellow at the Institute for Social Futures. Nick has authored numerous books, journal articles and reports on cities, futures and darkness.

Tim Edensor is Professor of Human Geography at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is the author of Tourists at the Taj (1998), National Identity, Popular Culture and Everyday Life (2002), Industrial Ruins: Space, Aesthetics and Materiality (2005), From Light to Dark: Daylight, Illumination and Gloom (2017), and Stone: Stories of Urban Materiality (2020).

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