The first interdisciplinary history of vertigo, this book covers medical accounts from antiquity to the present, testimonies of lived experience, and literary and cultural representations of vertigo.
The first interdisciplinary history of vertigo, this book covers medical accounts from antiquity to the present, testimonies of lived experience, and literary and cultural representations of vertigo.
Anindya Raychaudhuri is Senior Lecturer at the University of St Andrews, UK.
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Acknowledgments Introduction: Vertigo-as-Symptom and Vertigo-as-Metaphor 1. 'Nothing is quite where it is supposed to be': Negotiating Vertiginous Spaces 2. 'Moving in a hyperbolic sort of way': Speed and Vertigo 3. 'What if you jumped?": Acrophobia and the Vertigo of Heights 4. 'Avoid shopping centres like the plague': The Supermarket and the Dizziness of Capitalism 5. 'We can't just go to McDonalds': Ingestion, Expulsion and Vertigo as Abject 6. 'Not quite right in the world': Vertigo and Digital Technology 7. 'My life was already smaller': Pandemic as Vertiginous Disruption Conclusion: A Hermeneutics of Vertigo Notes References
Acknowledgments Introduction: Vertigo-as-Symptom and Vertigo-as-Metaphor 1. 'Nothing is quite where it is supposed to be': Negotiating Vertiginous Spaces 2. 'Moving in a hyperbolic sort of way': Speed and Vertigo 3. 'What if you jumped?": Acrophobia and the Vertigo of Heights 4. 'Avoid shopping centres like the plague': The Supermarket and the Dizziness of Capitalism 5. 'We can't just go to McDonalds': Ingestion, Expulsion and Vertigo as Abject 6. 'Not quite right in the world': Vertigo and Digital Technology 7. 'My life was already smaller': Pandemic as Vertiginous Disruption Conclusion: A Hermeneutics of Vertigo Notes References
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