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Abstract
This book provides a unique perspective on walking practice across time and place, in the context of evolving
technologies and climatic changes. Peter d'Agostino's World-Wide-Walks project, performed on six continents over the past four decades, lays a groundwork for considering walks as portals for crossing natural-cultural-virtual frontiers. Broad in scope, it addresses topic ranging from historical concerns including traditional Australian Aboriginal rites of passage and the exploits of explorers such as John Ledyard, to artists’ walks and related themes covered in the mass media during the past few years. The act of walking places the individual within a world of empirical awareness, statistical knowledge, expectation and surprise - anticipation of unknown encounters around the bend. In mediating the frontiers of human knowledge, walking and other forms of exploration remain a critical means of engaging global challenges, most notably now when traversing environmental boundaries undergoing radical and potential cataclysmic change.
Peter d’Agostino, Professor of Film & Media Arts, Temple University
David I. Tafler, Professor of Media & Communication and Film Studies, Muhlenberg College
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | Cover | ||
| Half Title | i | ||
| Copyright | ii | ||
| Title | iii | ||
| Contents | iv | ||
| Preface | vii | ||
| Part I: Introduction | 1 | ||
| Chapter 1: Walking on Edges, Peter d’Agostino’s World-Wide-Walks | 3 | ||
| Part II: Commentaries | 33 | ||
| Chapter 2: Peter d’Agostino: Walks & Sounds (footsteps, noise, and silence) | 35 | ||
| Chapter 3: World-Wide-Walks: body-apparatus | 49 | ||
| Part III: Projects | 75 | ||
| Chapter 4: World-Wide-Walks: selected works (1973–2018) | 77 | ||
| Chapter 5: FOOTnotes: Times & Places, Walking & Mapping | 109 | ||
| Chapter 6: WALKING… in a changing climate | 121 | ||
| Part IV: Documents | 151 | ||
| Chapter 7: COLD / HOT: Walks, Wars & Climate Change | 153 | ||
| Chapter 8: World-Wide-Walks / between earth & sky / Donegal | 177 | ||
| Chapter 9: COME & GO | 185 | ||
| Part V: Appendices | 201 | ||
| Chapter 10: WALKING…maps–territories | 203 | ||
| Chapter 11: Natural-Cultural Consciousness: in the age of climate change | 221 | ||
| Chapter 12: Techno-Cultural Visions: photography–cinema–digital media | 241 | ||
| Chapter 13: Peter d’Agostino’s Interfacing Strategies: camera obscura to World Wide Web | 269 | ||
| Chapter 14: Re-Visioning Virtual Realities (1990s/2010s) | 309 | ||
| Chapter 15: footNOTES: selected 1970s notebooks | 327 | ||
| Acknowledgments | 353 | ||
| Biographies | 359 | ||
| Index | 361 | ||
| Back Cover | Back Cover |