1st Edition

Visualising Worlds World-Making and Social Theory

By Martyn Hudson Copyright 2022
126 Pages
by Routledge

126 Pages
by Routledge

126 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines the social production of our world, of the worlds of the past and of the worlds of the future, considering the ways in which worlds are created in both actuality and imagination. Bringing together central concepts of classical sociology, including social change, transformation, individuation, collectivisation and human imagination and practice, it draws lessons from the... Read more

Preface: World-Making

1 Groundwork: Origins of Worlds, Space and Time

2. Imagining Neverlands

3. The Dark Centuries

4. Beowulf and the Beo-Monde

5. Building Monsters

6. Endwork: Second to the right, and straight on till morning

Biography

Martyn Hudson is Lecturer in Art and Design History at Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK. He is the author of Visualising the Empire of Capital, Critical Theory and the Classical World, Species and Machines, Ghosts, Landscapes and Social Memory and The Slave Ship, Memory and the Origins of Modernity.