“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Schaberg in the Times

Here.

"And consider this from Christopher Schaberg, an assistant professor of English at Loyola University and the author of a book, “The Textual Life of Airports: Reading the Culture of Flight” (Continuum, 2011), which one academic reviewer said “explores that most quotidian space of ennui, the airport.”

Pay attention not only to public art in airports, but also to your own place within, no matter how grim or humble a concourse might seem, Professor Schaberg advised. “Think of your time spent in the airport as an art walk of sorts. You are actually part of a giant, living art piece, the architectural matrix and social swirl that we recognize as airport life.” "



2 comments:

Henry Warwick said...

You are actually part of a giant, living art piece

aaaah - that's why I find Airports so miserable and oppressive.

Christopher Schaberg said...

Yes! Imagine if you were inside a Rauschenberg in process: that's it.