Abstract

PART III: The labyrinth of the world: places of disorientation -- 7. Labyrinths -- The figure of the labyrinth -- The dance of the labyrinth -- The Cretan labyrinth -- From the medieval to the Mannerist labyrinth -- Notes -- 8. The city: a labyrinth where you are never lost -- The broken map -- The flâneur -- Wandering, from the Dadaists to the Situationists -- A world of citizens -- The urban rhizome -- The mongrel city -- Suburbia -- Seeing and making the city -- Practices of resistance -- Notes -- 9. Lost in an unfrequented wilderness -- Seas and forests: unjelled, wild, and threatening manifestations of nature -- "I found that I was in a gloomy wood, because the path which led aright was lost" -- Holzwege -- Over-forestation -- "Lost in an unfrequented wilderness" -- All at sea -- The quest for longitude -- Accidental settlements in the Pacific -- Adrift -- Notes -- 10. Lost in cyberspace and art -- Cyberspace -- The spatial metaphor of the Web -- The virtual labyrinth of cyberspace -- Cyborgs -- Mapping cyberspace -- The rules of perspective -- Art as a form of transgression -- The art of disorientation -- Notes -- Epilogue -- References -- Index.