Visualising Worlds

World-Making and Social Theory

Martyn Hudson (Northumbria University, UK.)

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English

Routledge
31 May 2023

Archaeological theory; Cultural studies; Sociology; Social theory; Political science & theory

Series: Visual Modernities

This book examines the social production of our world, of the worlds of the past and of the worlds of the future, considering the ways in which worlds are created in both actuality and imagination. Bringing together central concepts of classical sociology, including social change, transformation, individuation, collectivisation and human imagination and practice, it draws lessons from the collapse of Graeco-Roman antiquity for our own world of virus and ecological disasters, considers the genesis of capitalism and intimates its ending. Rooted in classical sociology yet challenging its traditions and objects of study, Visualising Worlds: World-Making and Social Theory adopts new ways of thinking about visuality, aesthetics and how we ‘see’ social worlds, and how we then begin to build them. As such, it will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in social theory, historical sociology, cultural studies, critical theory, archaeology, and the emergence, change and collapse of civilisations.

By: Martyn Hudson (Northumbria University UK.)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367681647
ISBN 10: 0367681641
Series: Visual Modernities
Pages: 126
Publication Date: 31 May 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface: World-Making 1. Groundwork: Origins of Worlds, Space and Time 2. Imagining Neverlands 3. The Dark Centuries 4. Beowulf and the Beo-Monde 5. Building Monsters 6. Endwork: Second to the right, and straight on till morning

Martyn Hudson is Lecturer in Art and Design History at Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK. He is the author of Visualising the Empire of Capital, Critical Theory and the Classical World, Species and Machines, Ghosts, Landscapes and Social Memory and The Slave Ship, Memory and the Origins of Modernity.