Literature
1. Fear and Ticketing
2. Being In Time
3. Hardt & Negri International Terminal
4. Theses on Cinnabon
5. The Task of the TSA Agent
6. Security Checkpoint, or Bodies That Don't Matter
7. Dialectic of Moving Walkways
8. The Categorical Imperative To Wait
9. Thus Spake Richard Branson
10. The René Descartes Departure Lounge
11. The Phenomenology of Spirit Airlines
12. A Thousand Concourses
13. Passenger Network Theory
14. The David Hume Nondenominational Chapel
15. The Poetics of Spacing Out
16. Ludwig Wittgenstein Room for Unaccompanied Minors
17. The Work of Art in the Age of Really Long Escalators
18. The Maurice Merleau-Ponty Observation Area
19. When Species Meet in Airports
20. Emmanuel Levinas Food Court
21. Structure, Sign, and Plane
22. Democracy in American Airlines
23. Can the Stand-by Speak?
24. Tractatus Theologico Upgrade Us
25. The Anxiety of Enplaning
26. The Sublime Object of Carry-on Luggage
27. Discourse in the Jetway
28. "You can never step twice into the same Airbus."
29. The Second Roller-bag
30. Seat Pitch and Bare Life
31. What is the Post-departure?
32. Delay and Punish
33. SkyMall and Simulacra
34. The Well Wrought Seat-back Pocket
35. The Banality of Emergency Exits
36. On Boredom and Being Late
37. How to Do Things with Boarding Passes
38. Pedagogy of the Deplaned
39. The Cultural Logic of Late Arrivals
40. Welcome to the Airport of the Real
41. The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Family Restroom
42. Leibniz-Keks Kiosk
43. Structures of Feeling Jet-lagged
44. Boeing and Nothingness
45. Signature Event Currency Exchange
46. Plato's Baggage Claim
47. Course in General Lingering
48. Curbside Lucida
- Minor Collision
This is a report on the end of airports. Today two 737s clashed their wings on the taxiways of LGA. One was a Southwest plane, the other American Airlines. Pictures snapped and tweeted by passengers showed the broken winglet of the Southwest plane, and...
- Terminal 2, Stl
The Southwest terminal (Terminal 2), separate from but adjacent to the main Lambert-St. Louis airport terminal (Terminal 1), is spare: it is severe and efficient. It provides a rarified airport experience, with no frills or festoons, save perhaps the...
- Airports: The Interview
Sacramento Airport (SMF) Terminal A, circa 2005 A couple weeks ago I was interviewed for the Wisconsin Public Radio show ?To the Best of Our Knowledge? for an hour-long program about airports. The fantastic producer of the show, Doug Gordon, discovered...
- T-rex In The Baggage Claim; Flies On Your Body
My good friend Greg Keeler just sent me some pictures that he took in the Bozeman airport, around the baggage claim. This one made me pause: What is that T-Rex doing in the baggage claim? The easy answer: Jack Horner is a local. But on another level,...
- Up In The Air
Jason Reitman's film adaptation of Walter Kirn's novel UP IN THE AIR treats the subject of flight in two not entirely compatible ways, and these ways can be seen in this promotional still, with the singular George Clooney?s contemplative face...
Literature
Theory for Airports
photo courtesy of J. Ryan Williams
1. Fear and Ticketing
2. Being In Time
3. Hardt & Negri International Terminal
4. Theses on Cinnabon
5. The Task of the TSA Agent
6. Security Checkpoint, or Bodies That Don't Matter
7. Dialectic of Moving Walkways
8. The Categorical Imperative To Wait
9. Thus Spake Richard Branson
10. The René Descartes Departure Lounge
11. The Phenomenology of Spirit Airlines
12. A Thousand Concourses
13. Passenger Network Theory
14. The David Hume Nondenominational Chapel
15. The Poetics of Spacing Out
16. Ludwig Wittgenstein Room for Unaccompanied Minors
17. The Work of Art in the Age of Really Long Escalators
18. The Maurice Merleau-Ponty Observation Area
19. When Species Meet in Airports
20. Emmanuel Levinas Food Court
21. Structure, Sign, and Plane
22. Democracy in American Airlines
23. Can the Stand-by Speak?
24. Tractatus Theologico Upgrade Us
25. The Anxiety of Enplaning
26. The Sublime Object of Carry-on Luggage
27. Discourse in the Jetway
28. "You can never step twice into the same Airbus."
29. The Second Roller-bag
30. Seat Pitch and Bare Life
31. What is the Post-departure?
32. Delay and Punish
33. SkyMall and Simulacra
34. The Well Wrought Seat-back Pocket
35. The Banality of Emergency Exits
36. On Boredom and Being Late
37. How to Do Things with Boarding Passes
38. Pedagogy of the Deplaned
39. The Cultural Logic of Late Arrivals
40. Welcome to the Airport of the Real
41. The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Family Restroom
42. Leibniz-Keks Kiosk
44. Boeing and Nothingness
45. Signature Event Currency Exchange
46. Plato's Baggage Claim
47. Course in General Lingering
48. Curbside Lucida
- Minor Collision
This is a report on the end of airports. Today two 737s clashed their wings on the taxiways of LGA. One was a Southwest plane, the other American Airlines. Pictures snapped and tweeted by passengers showed the broken winglet of the Southwest plane, and...
- Terminal 2, Stl
The Southwest terminal (Terminal 2), separate from but adjacent to the main Lambert-St. Louis airport terminal (Terminal 1), is spare: it is severe and efficient. It provides a rarified airport experience, with no frills or festoons, save perhaps the...
- Airports: The Interview
Sacramento Airport (SMF) Terminal A, circa 2005 A couple weeks ago I was interviewed for the Wisconsin Public Radio show ?To the Best of Our Knowledge? for an hour-long program about airports. The fantastic producer of the show, Doug Gordon, discovered...
- T-rex In The Baggage Claim; Flies On Your Body
My good friend Greg Keeler just sent me some pictures that he took in the Bozeman airport, around the baggage claim. This one made me pause: What is that T-Rex doing in the baggage claim? The easy answer: Jack Horner is a local. But on another level,...
- Up In The Air
Jason Reitman's film adaptation of Walter Kirn's novel UP IN THE AIR treats the subject of flight in two not entirely compatible ways, and these ways can be seen in this promotional still, with the singular George Clooney?s contemplative face...