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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. Softcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> Geography is both a form of common knowledge and an academic disci-pline; its language of cartography and topography is so familiar that it seems natural and incontestible. But it is far more than a mode of charting the known world; geography is a source of authority in the fundamental ques-tions of inclusion and exclusion and plays a crucial role in the determination of identity and belonging. But how adequate is geography as a source of authority in the modern world? And can contemporary art challenge and transform that authority? Terra Infirma explores how geography writes relations between subjects and places and examines both the truth claims and the signifying prac-tices of geography as a language in crisis unable to represent the immense changes that have taken place in the post-colonial post-migratory and post-communist world. Combining an analysis of the way in which geography defines the concept of belonging with an investigation of its visual signifi-cation Irit Rogoff asks whether contemporary art can rewrite geography’s relations with place and identity. Examining contemporary art practices from around the world including the work of Joshua Neustein Mona Hatoum Hans Haacke and Alfredo Jaar Rogoff explores these issues through the themes of luggage mapping borders and bodies. In the process the book reveals the complexity of contemporary art’s engagement with the problematic of geography and the immense variety of alternative strategies available to review our relation-ship with the spaces we inhabit. (LL)