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space/self/world: Space and Identity in Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey

space/self/world: Space and Identity in Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey

Miller, Blair

Paperback

General EducationGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1645042162
ISBN13: 9781645042167
Publisher: Dio Press Inc
Published: Feb 21 2022
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.18 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Using perhaps the most famous science fiction film ever made, what does it mean that we are determined by space? That the human individual was created by controlling its spatial environment(s)? Complicating matters further, that same control that defines us limits our understanding and the spaces themselves, to the extent that the individual itself is under command. space/self/world is a critical examination of a certain philosophical approach to space via Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. As bookends to a chronology of the human self-specifically its spatial relationship(s)-that encompasses Kubrick's whole body of work, 2001 provides an account of human existence from beginning to end. That existence is deeply informed by spatial negotiations involving all people and things. Theodor Adorno's essay Odysseus of Myth and Enlightenment explains how the modern self (and reason) came to be, in terms of power relationships and self-domination. Seen together, the film and theories articulated by the Frankfurt School icon give an account of spatial identities that, when brought up against theories of acoustic space put forth by communications theorists Marshall McLuhan and J. Macgregor Wise, demonstrate human identity as largely the outcome of spatial negotiations that have resulted in instrumentalization of spaces, and, in turn, ourselves. This book travels 2001's narrative arc, critically analyzing it by providing a nuanced-at times abstract and metaphorical-account of space, instrumentalization, and power relationships that all intersect as building blocks of the contemporary self. Originally written 15 years ago, its concepts and concerns are as apt and urgent as ever.

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