Visitors to the Arctic enter places that have been traditionally imagined as otherworldly. This strangeness fascinated audiences in nineteenth-century Britain when the idea of the heroic explorer voyaging through unmapped zones reached its zenith. The Spectral Arctic re-thinks our understanding of Arctic exploration by paying attention to the importance of dreams and ghosts in the quest for the…
Persepsi negatif terhadap ngengat membuat tidak banyak orang tertarik untuk mempelajari, kecuali terhadap kelompok yang menjadi hama pertanian, khususnya di Indonesia. Tidak-lah mengherankan jika kemudian jumlah peneliti sistematika ngengat di Indonesia tidak lebih dari hitungan jari. Hal ini tidak sebanding dengan jumlah keanekaragaman ngengat Indonesia yang d…
Whether it’s childhood make-believe, the theater, sports, or even market speculation, play is one of humanity’s seemingly purest activities: a form of entertainment and leisure and a chance to explore the world and its possibilities in an imagined environment or construct. But as Roberte Hamayon shows in this book, play has implications that go even further than that. Exploring play’s man…