Christopher Schaberg

This book is one English professor's assessment of university life in the early 21st century. From rising mental health concerns and trigger warnings to learning management systems and the COVID pandemic, Christopher Schaberg reflects on the rapidly evolving landscape of higher education. Adopting an interdisciplinary public humanities approach, Schaberg considers the frequently exhausting and depressing realities of college today. Yet in these meditations he also finds hope: collaboration, mentoring, less grading, surface reading, and other pedagogical strategies open up opportunities to reinvigorate teaching and learning in the current turbulent decade.

Pedagogy of the Depressed

From the earliest airfields to the post-9/11 turn, this book investigates how airports figure in the American cultural imagination. >

Reading the Culture of Flight

The Textual Life of Airports

Ian Bogost

Jessica Leigh Hester

Sewer

Laura Waddell

Exit

Michelle McSweeney

Amanda Parrish Morgan

Stroller

Erica Wright

Snake

Hanne Blank

Hunter Dukes

Signature

Dinah Lenney

Coffee

As commercial flight is changing dramatically and its future remains unclear, a look at how we got here Grounded: Perpetual Flight . . . and Then the Pandemic considers the time leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing global plummet in commercial flight. Mobility studies scholar Christopher Schaberg tours the newly opened airport terminal outside of New Orleans (MSY) in late 2019, and goes on to survey the broad cultural landscape of empty airports and grounded planes in the early months of the novel coronavirus's spread in 2020. The book culminates in a reflection on the future of air travel: what may unfold, and what parts of commercial flight are almost certainly relics of the past. Grounded blends journalistic reportage with cultural theory and philosophical inquiry in order to offer graspable insights as well as a stinging critique of contemporary air travel.

Perpetual Flight ... and Then the Pandemic

Grounded

Twitter, Instagram ve viral videolar çağında edebiyat çalışmalarının rolü nedir? Edebiyat öğretmek ve öğrenmek yalnızca asırlık sorularla klasik metinleri okumamaksa, yakın okuma veya eleştirel bakışın reddi de değildir. İçinde yaşadığımız hakikat sonrası çağ, aynı zamanda insanların inançlarının, estetik anlayışlarının, tüketici alışkanlıklarının, seyahat araçlarının ve inandıkları politikaların bir çembere alındığı bağnaz bölünme çağıdır. Bir edebiyat profesörü olan Christopher Schaberg, hızla değişen dünyada yaşadığı tecrübeleri aracılığıyla, hakikat sonrası siyaset ve ekolojik önceliklerin baş döndürücü çağında edebiyat ve kültürün yolunu bulabilmesi için ne gerektiğini soruşturuyor eserinde. Hakikat Sonrası Çağda Edebiyat Eseri; edebi pasajlardan gündelik yürüyüşlere, vahşi yaşam maceralarından akademik ilhamlara, ekoloji problemlerinden havayolu yolculuğuna kadar çok çeşitli konulara değiniyor. Edebi metinler ve yazma üzerine dersler veren yazar, eserinin, edebiyat bağlamında düşündüğü ve çalıştığı tekrar eden şeylerin bir hikâyesi olduğunu ifade ediyor.

Hakikat Sonrası Çağda Edebiyat Eseri

If air travel was once the bold future, it has now settled into a mundane, on-going present. We no longer expect romantic experiences or sublime views, but just hope that we get from here to there with minimal hassle. In The End of Airports, Christopher Schaberg suggests that even as the epoch of flight approaches a threshold of banality, there are still mysteries to be unraveled around our aircraft and airfields. Drawing from his own experiences working at an airport, as well as interpreting these spaces from the perspective of a cultural critic, Schaberg explores the secret lives of jet bridges, seating areas, concourses, and tarmac vehicles, showing how the ordinary objects of flight call for wonder and inquiry. The End of Airports is not an obituary-it's more like an ode to terminals in the digital age.

The End of Airports

As commercial flight is changing dramatically and its future remains unclear, a look at how we got here Grounded: Perpetual Flight . . . and Then the Pandemic considers the time leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing global plummet in commercial flight. Mobility studies scholar Christopher Schaberg tours the newly opened airport terminal outside of New Orleans (MSY) in late 2019, and goes on to survey the broad cultural landscape of empty airports and grounded planes in the early months of the novel coronavirus’s spread in 2020. The book culminates in a reflection on the future of air travel: what may unfold, and what parts of commercial flight are almost certainly relics of the past. Grounded blends journalistic reportage with cultural theory and philosophical inquiry in order to offer graspable insights as well as a stinging critique of contemporary air travel.

Perpetual Flight . . . and Then the Pandemic

Pardis Mahdavi

Hyphen

Debated, denied, unheard of, encompassing: The Anthropocene is a vexed topic, and requires interdisciplinary imagination. Starting at the author's home in rural northern Michigan and zooming out to perceive a dizzying global matrix, Christopher Schaberg invites readers on an atmospheric, impressionistic adventure with the environmental humanities. Searching for the Anthropocene blends personal narrative, cultural criticism, and ecological thought to ponder human-driven catastrophe on a planetary scale. This book is not about defining or settling the Anthropocene, but rather about articulating what it's like to live in the Anthropocene, to live with a sense of its nagging presence--even as the stakes grow higher with each passing year, each oncoming storm.

A Journey into the Environmental Humanities

Searching for the Anthropocene

"Explores the surprising connections between the common experience of air travel and how we think about nature"--

The Nature of Flight

Airportness

Airportness takes the reader on a single day's journey through all the routines and stages of an ordinary flight. From curbside to baggage, and pondering the minutes and hours of sitting in between, Christopher Schaberg contemplates the mundane world of commercial aviation to discover “the nature of flight.” For Schaberg this means hearing planes in the sky, recognizing airline symbols in unlikely places, and navigating the various zones of transit from sliding doors, to jet bridge, to lavatory. It is an ongoing, swarming ecosystem that unfolds each day as we fly, get stranded, and arrive at our destinations. Airportness turns out to be more than just architecture and design elements-rather, it is all the rumble and buzz of flight, the tedium of travel as well as the feelings of uplift.

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