{"product_id":"a-cartography-of-the-middle-of-nowhere-leann-herlihy","title":"a cartography of the middle of nowhere, Léann Herlihy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ea cartography of the middle of nowhere\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e is a charting of spatial ontologies which centre ideals and areas of radical resistance for those who dwell in the margins. Unfolding out into a large-scale map, this publication consists of a speculative text, pragmatic diagrams and an exercise for the reader inside.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eTransgressing beyond the boundaries of language, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ea cartography of the middle of nowhere\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e becomes a subjective area of geographic desire wherein each individual’s map is informed by autobiographic, mythologic and embodied performances of the self. Written from the perspective of a queer wayfinder, this map is demarcated by leaky boundaries; edges that expand, dilute and shift to accommodate the evolving environment in which queers and\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e queer \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003edesires are situated. Rather than being located in the bullseye, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ethe middle of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ethis queer \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003enowhere \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ebecomes decentred as it navigates the encroaching peripheries of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003esomewhere\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e. On the run from a dominant society, the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003emiddle \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eis unfixed, ephemeral and fleeting.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWith this in mind, the mathematical topology of the Möbius strip becomes the middle of nowhere’s floorplan. Chugging like a conveyor belt \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eof navigation\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, the reader runs the risk of never securing what they desire yet endure the repetitive cycle of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ecollision, collapse and (re)surfacing \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ein a bid to find it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublished by Project Arts Centre\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSoftcover with a paper Möbius strip\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSingle fold-out map\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e125 x 238mm\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Project Arts Centre","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42926621393110,"sku":"ACOTMONLH01","price":7.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2538\/3478\/products\/Screenshot2022-05-11at17.36.29.png?v=1652287341","url":"https:\/\/www.thelibraryproject.ie\/it\/products\/a-cartography-of-the-middle-of-nowhere-leann-herlihy","provider":"The Library Project","version":"1.0","type":"link"}