Dynamo Island – The cultural history and geography of a Utopia
Seiten
2016
Zero Books (Verlag)
978-1-78535-112-9 (ISBN)
Zero Books (Verlag)
978-1-78535-112-9 (ISBN)
At the crossroads of fiction and social theory, the book confronts fundamental issues facing Western civilization in the 21st century.
Dynamo Island is an account of a contemporary ideal world set in an Ireland-sized island in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. It expresses the possibility of a modern society living in harmonious ecological balance with its environment. The ethos of the place is built around the notion of the human being as a dynamo managing and self-regulating energy in a way that draws on without harming the natural world. One of the island's main features is that there are no cars, only bicycles along with a comprehensive public tram and electric train network.
Dynamo Island is an account of a contemporary ideal world set in an Ireland-sized island in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. It expresses the possibility of a modern society living in harmonious ecological balance with its environment. The ethos of the place is built around the notion of the human being as a dynamo managing and self-regulating energy in a way that draws on without harming the natural world. One of the island's main features is that there are no cars, only bicycles along with a comprehensive public tram and electric train network.
David Scott holds a personal chair in French (Textual & Visual Studies) at Trinity College Dublin. He has written widely on literature, painting and textual/visual studies, and organized a number of exhibitions on art and design.
Erscheinungsdatum | 13.01.2016 |
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Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 143 x 215 mm |
Gewicht | 194 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-78535-112-5 / 1785351125 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-78535-112-9 / 9781785351129 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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