{"product_id":"the-work-in-the-world-michael-r-curry-9780816626656","title":"The Work in the World: Geographical Practice and the Written Word","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Work in the World\u003c\/i\u003e was first published in 1996. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe writing or reading or buying or selling or judging of a written work is always at the same time the act of making a place-or making places. The author creates a special sort of place for his ideas; the reader, for her engagement with the author; the bookseller, for the notion of books as property to be categorized and sold; and so on. In this book, Michael R. Curry develops a geography of this process, a theory of the nature of space and places in written work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Work in the World\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on a paradox at the heart of this project: Although the written work is inextricably bound up in the construction of the places in which it is written, read, published, circulated, and cited, it nonetheless denies the importance of places. As the product of modern modes of knowledge, technology, and intellectual property, written work seems to say instead that only the encompassing universal space of ideas, objects, and commodities matters.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDistinctive for the way it views theories in geography and science as fundamentally embedded in written works, \u003ci\u003eThe Work in the World\u003c\/i\u003e argues eloquently that the philosophical questions raised by theories can only be addressed within the broader context of the work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMichael R. Curry is associate professor of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael R. Curry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816626650\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816626656\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.01h x 5.91w x 0.52d","brand":"Michael R. Curry","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46962523668735,"sku":"9780816626656","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f2b0aa76-f979-4764-8c8f-62b34bda00d4.jpg?v=1750651707","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-work-in-the-world-michael-r-curry-9780816626656","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}