Literature
This gem just arrived in the mail:
An Air France A380 emergency briefing card, and some airport haiku, from my awesome & inspiring architect cousin, Emily White!
One haiku reads:
To modify slightly the words of Jacques Derrida: the airliner is the site of a great affair, truly. For me, the airliner is a church in which secret rendez-vous are given. When I seen an airliner with emergency slides popped I tremble as if in a sacred place, full of refused, promised, threatening pleasures.
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- Aircraft Disaster Ecotopias And The Making And Killing Of Liberal Subjects
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- Taxiway Views
A little story of mine was in The New York Times last week: "A Night Spent on the Tarmac, With No Complaints." It made an especially nice coincidental pairing with another topic of the moment: As if on cue, the past few days have offered a series of...
- Emergency/poetics
There is an interesting way in which emergency recordings can tune people in to ambient poetics. Consider, for instance, one comment in the Times article concerning the air traffic control tapes from US Airways Flight 1549's water landing in the...
Literature
Two Ways of looking at Emergency Slides
This gem just arrived in the mail:
An Air France A380 emergency briefing card, and some airport haiku, from my awesome & inspiring architect cousin, Emily White!
One haiku reads:
In other news, a 787 Dreamliner made an emergency landing at Takamatsu airport in Japan after an apparent electrical fire, and the slides were deployed:Passenger paradeMysterious upper deckWho is sitting there?
To modify slightly the words of Jacques Derrida: the airliner is the site of a great affair, truly. For me, the airliner is a church in which secret rendez-vous are given. When I seen an airliner with emergency slides popped I tremble as if in a sacred place, full of refused, promised, threatening pleasures.
- Environmentality & The Visual Culture Of Plane Crashes
"Project Mayhem" briefing card from the film Fight Club (20th-c Fox, David Fincher, 1999) This post is a sneak peek of part of an essay of mine that is being published in a book called Beauty, Violence, Representation (as part of the Routledge...
- Airport Reading, Airplane Reading: Definitions & Distinctions
Airport reading, airplane reading. What's the difference? These two phrases often are conflated or used interchangeably. I use these phrases in fairly distinct ways, which I want to delineate briefly here. Airport reading can mean just the trashy...
- Aircraft Disaster Ecotopias And The Making And Killing Of Liberal Subjects
Recently I've been working on an essay about violent airline disasters and environmental aesthetics. It seems to me that there is a persistent drive to describe the surroundings of actual or potential airline disasters in pastoral language, and through...
- Taxiway Views
A little story of mine was in The New York Times last week: "A Night Spent on the Tarmac, With No Complaints." It made an especially nice coincidental pairing with another topic of the moment: As if on cue, the past few days have offered a series of...
- Emergency/poetics
There is an interesting way in which emergency recordings can tune people in to ambient poetics. Consider, for instance, one comment in the Times article concerning the air traffic control tapes from US Airways Flight 1549's water landing in the...