Mobility runs deep in our evolutionary history. From our beginnings as a species, our small bands were on the move, travelling light. All that changed about 10,000 years ago as the Agriculture Age hobbled us to fields. Over millennia, we gradually relinquished our traditional mobility for life inside permanent rooms.
"Rooms is an engaging and impressive meditation on the entanglement between humans and our material cultures, from deep prehistory until the present day. It is, essentially, an archaeology of lived-in spaces, sweeping in scope, which explores the ways in which we reshape the contours of our natural environments, and the ways in which those spaces in turn shape us. A fascinating read." Professor Damian Evans, Ph.D., Author of Angkor and Khmer Civilization (2018), Research Fellow, a Ecole francaised' Extreme-Orient, and Principal Investigator of the CALI program at the EFEO Centre at Siem Reap-Angkor
Rooms explores the forces, processes, and methods used to confine and domesticate homo sapiens. In psychological, political and social terms, our loss of mobility is rarely questioned in our global room culture. This book is an accounting of that loss. In the near future, we face new questions such as: How will new technology transform room culture? Will it make us mobile again or lock us into another kind of prison?
"Rooms is an engaging and impressive meditation on the entanglement between humans and our material cultures, from deep prehistory until the present day. It is, essentially, an archaeology of lived-in spaces, sweeping in scope, which explores the ways in which we reshape the contours of our natural environments, and the ways in which those spaces in turn shape us. A fascinating read." Professor Damian Evans, Ph.D., Author of Angkor and Khmer Civilization (2018), Research Fellow, a Ecole francaised' Extreme-Orient, and Principal Investigator of the CALI program at the EFEO Centre at Siem Reap-Angkor
Rooms explores the forces, processes, and methods used to confine and domesticate homo sapiens. In psychological, political and social terms, our loss of mobility is rarely questioned in our global room culture. This book is an accounting of that loss. In the near future, we face new questions such as: How will new technology transform room culture? Will it make us mobile again or lock us into another kind of prison?
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