Robinson in Space

by Patrick Keiller ; and a conversation with Patrick Wright

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Author(s)

Patrick Keiller

Publication, year

London : Reaktion Books, 1999

Scope

236 Pages, illustrated, 24 cm.

ISBN

9781861890283

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"Robinson in Space" is a visual, satirical record of a journey made by a fictional character called Robinson, narrated by his travelling companion and researcher, through the increasingly unknown space of present-day England. Robinson quotes Oscar Wilde: 'It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible not the invisible'. His assumptions about economic failure, especially in manufacturing industry, are gradually challenged by the discovery of an industrial economy that employs few people but still generates most of the wealth of the fifth-largest economy in the world. With a conversation with Patrick Wright

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Location

Cabinet 28 - 5: Culturele benadering van de (stedelijke) ruimte

Extra themes

Walk / stroll / explore / hang out