Elena Glasberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 104004 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elena Glasberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elena |
| FAMILY NAME | Glasberg |
| SIGNATURE | GLASBERG E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Note from the Board
Note from the Board Elena Glasberg and Elizabeth Wissinger Elena Glasberg and Elizabeth Wissinger Beauty is a killer. It hurts. That is the consensus of the authors collected here. It hurts to be beautiful. And it hurts even more not to be beautiful. This conundrum may explain why the conversation around beauty keeps lingering: the more you critique beauty, the more its mask, its allure, becomes real. If beauty is the hazy cultural fantasy that h…
Artist Statement
Introduction
To survive is messy, elaborate, layered. The metaphysics of deferral are implied by the word's Latinate roots: sur (over) vive (life). Sur-vival, live beyond, implies competition among the living, some who go on and some who, perforce, are survived. Live, survive, preserve, and conserve all share the root vivre, which itself is preserved by its prefixal adaptability. Linguistically, life survives. Its animacy is not merely grammatical but neither…
Everything That Rises Must Converge
Photography on Ice
G iven the ongoing economic and environmental upheaval, US conservation activist and landscape photographer Eliot Porter’s concern 30 years ago over the possibility of pressure from a “consortium of petroleum corporations” to drill in the fragile US Arctic might well have been written in the summer of 2011, as the ice of the North Pole melted to create a new, open zone of imperial contestation. Or it might be written in the near future, to decry …
On the Road with Chrysler
A ntarctica has posed a problem for capital in two contradictory ways. One, in that it is difficult to profit from barren ice; and two, in that it is even more difficult to account for the many ways that capital has in fact profited from the idea and the material facts of Antarctic territory, including the very idea of its unprofitability. The first, few people would argue with as there are countless laments to the fruitlessness of ice and to its…
Refusing History after Ursula K. Le Guin’s “Sur”
T he “Heroic Age” commenced with the revival of interest in Antarctica around 1900 and ended before the era of mechanization and aerial reconnaissance beginning in the late 1920s. Its colonial modes of knowledge were limited by the ability of the human body to withstand the environment. Human inhabitation was its goal, experience its method, and the footstep—the mark of embodied movement and progress upon the terrain—became its prime symbol. The …
Antarctic Convergence
Mapping is the cultural history of Antarctica. Before the ninteenth century, mapping alone constituted the biopolitical relation to the territory. Due to the time lag between a southern landmass being imagined and its actualization through exploration and discovery, mapping has had a very specific, even disproportionate importance for Antarctica. Declared in 1895 as the last undiscovered place on earth by the Royal Geographical Society, and lacki…
Epilogue
T he entire earth becomes polar in Anne Noble’s “Bung at the South Pole on a Blow-up Globe.” New globes of ocean and ice home in on territories once assumed merely obstacles on the way to somewhere, or as spent ends, nowhere (Figure 7.1). The “Oceanic Turn” in cultural studies gives a new territorial objective to the decentering of humans. Noble uses a child’s blow-up globe to simply upturn the conventional perspective on the inhabited globe to r…
“Who Goes There?”
I magining a future in Antarctica has never been easy. British explorer James Cook on his third voyage around the globe in 1775, frustrated by the frozen seas, the absence of arable land, mineral wealth, or anything he saw as valuable, declared the imperial territorial quest ended: “no man will ever venture further than I have done ... the lands which may lie to the south will never be explored.” 1 Cook’s impulse was based on his extensive experi…
Sculpting in Ice
P olar explorers, primarily known for symbolic acts of imperial derring-do, are reliable and safe, nonconfrontational heroes for confusing times. 1 Perhaps, this was all quite clear to Prince Harry of Britain, who joined a February 2011 trek to the North Pole as a member of “Walking with the Wounded,” a group raising money for injured veterans. Once the mythic zones of European heroism, the poles are today more associated with concerns over nativ…
Antarctica as Cultural Critique
Arguing that Antarctica is the most mediated place on earth and thus an ideal location for testing the limits of bio-political management of population and place, this book remaps national and postcol
Viral Things”
John Carpenter's The Thing. Universal Pictures, 1982 Matthijs van Heijningen's The Thing. Universal Pictures, 2011 Now is perfect timing for a re-review of The Thing, John Carpenter's 1982 sci-fi horror classic of alien infiltration of a polar outpost - as Matthijs van Heijningen's 2011 remake has come and already quickly gone from U.S. theaters. Carpenter's The was itself a remake of director Christian Nyby s 1951 Howard Hawks-produced The From …
"Living Ice"
"Living Ice":Rediscovery of the Poles in an Era of Climate Crisis Elena Glasberg (bio) Polar explorers, primarily known for symbolic acts of imperial derring-do, are reliable and safe, nonconfrontational heroes for confusing times.1 Perhaps this was all quite clear to Prince Harry of Britain, who joined a February 2011 trek to the North Pole as a member of "Walking with the Wounded," a group raising money for injured veterans. Once the mythic zon…
Who goes there? Science, fiction, and belonging in Antarctica
Refusing History at the End of the Earth
Elena Glasberg, Refusing History at the End of the Earth: Ursula Le Guin's "Sur" and the 2000-01 Women's Antarctica Crossing, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Vol. 21, No. 1 (Spring, 2002), pp. 99-121
The Last Place on Earth
Who goes there? Science, fiction, and belonging in Antarctica
Note from the Board
Note from the Board Elena Glasberg and Elizabeth Wissinger Elena Glasberg and Elizabeth Wissinger Beauty is a killer. It hurts. That is the consensus of the authors collected here. It hurts to be beautiful. And it hurts even more not to be beautiful. This conundrum may explain why the conversation around beauty keeps lingering: the more you critique beauty, the more its mask, its allure, becomes real. If beauty is the hazy cultural fantasy that h…
The Last Place on Earth
Refusing History at the End of the Earth
Elena Glasberg, Refusing History at the End of the Earth: Ursula Le Guin's "Sur" and the 2000-01 Women's Antarctica Crossing, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Vol. 21, No. 1 (Spring, 2002), pp. 99-121
Who goes there? Science, fiction, and belonging in Antarctica
"Living Ice"
"Living Ice":Rediscovery of the Poles in an Era of Climate Crisis Elena Glasberg (bio) Polar explorers, primarily known for symbolic acts of imperial derring-do, are reliable and safe, nonconfrontational heroes for confusing times.1 Perhaps this was all quite clear to Prince Harry of Britain, who joined a February 2011 trek to the North Pole as a member of "Walking with the Wounded," a group raising money for injured veterans. Once the mythic zon…
Photography on Ice
G iven the ongoing economic and environmental upheaval, US conservation activist and landscape photographer Eliot Porter’s concern 30 years ago over the possibility of pressure from a “consortium of petroleum corporations” to drill in the fragile US Arctic might well have been written in the summer of 2011, as the ice of the North Pole melted to create a new, open zone of imperial contestation. Or it might be written in the near future, to decry …
On the Road with Chrysler
A ntarctica has posed a problem for capital in two contradictory ways. One, in that it is difficult to profit from barren ice; and two, in that it is even more difficult to account for the many ways that capital has in fact profited from the idea and the material facts of Antarctic territory, including the very idea of its unprofitability. The first, few people would argue with as there are countless laments to the fruitlessness of ice and to its…
Refusing History after Ursula K. Le Guin’s “Sur”
T he “Heroic Age” commenced with the revival of interest in Antarctica around 1900 and ended before the era of mechanization and aerial reconnaissance beginning in the late 1920s. Its colonial modes of knowledge were limited by the ability of the human body to withstand the environment. Human inhabitation was its goal, experience its method, and the footstep—the mark of embodied movement and progress upon the terrain—became its prime symbol. The …
Antarctic Convergence
Mapping is the cultural history of Antarctica. Before the ninteenth century, mapping alone constituted the biopolitical relation to the territory. Due to the time lag between a southern landmass being imagined and its actualization through exploration and discovery, mapping has had a very specific, even disproportionate importance for Antarctica. Declared in 1895 as the last undiscovered place on earth by the Royal Geographical Society, and lacki…
Epilogue
T he entire earth becomes polar in Anne Noble’s “Bung at the South Pole on a Blow-up Globe.” New globes of ocean and ice home in on territories once assumed merely obstacles on the way to somewhere, or as spent ends, nowhere (Figure 7.1). The “Oceanic Turn” in cultural studies gives a new territorial objective to the decentering of humans. Noble uses a child’s blow-up globe to simply upturn the conventional perspective on the inhabited globe to r…
“Who Goes There?”
I magining a future in Antarctica has never been easy. British explorer James Cook on his third voyage around the globe in 1775, frustrated by the frozen seas, the absence of arable land, mineral wealth, or anything he saw as valuable, declared the imperial territorial quest ended: “no man will ever venture further than I have done ... the lands which may lie to the south will never be explored.” 1 Cook’s impulse was based on his extensive experi…
Sculpting in Ice
P olar explorers, primarily known for symbolic acts of imperial derring-do, are reliable and safe, nonconfrontational heroes for confusing times. 1 Perhaps, this was all quite clear to Prince Harry of Britain, who joined a February 2011 trek to the North Pole as a member of “Walking with the Wounded,” a group raising money for injured veterans. Once the mythic zones of European heroism, the poles are today more associated with concerns over nativ…
Antarctica as Cultural Critique
Arguing that Antarctica is the most mediated place on earth and thus an ideal location for testing the limits of bio-political management of population and place, this book remaps national and postcol
Viral Things”
John Carpenter's The Thing. Universal Pictures, 1982 Matthijs van Heijningen's The Thing. Universal Pictures, 2011 Now is perfect timing for a re-review of The Thing, John Carpenter's 1982 sci-fi horror classic of alien infiltration of a polar outpost - as Matthijs van Heijningen's 2011 remake has come and already quickly gone from U.S. theaters. Carpenter's The was itself a remake of director Christian Nyby s 1951 Howard Hawks-produced The From …
Everything That Rises Must Converge
Artist Statement
Introduction
To survive is messy, elaborate, layered. The metaphysics of deferral are implied by the word's Latinate roots: sur (over) vive (life). Sur-vival, live beyond, implies competition among the living, some who go on and some who, perforce, are survived. Live, survive, preserve, and conserve all share the root vivre, which itself is preserved by its prefixal adaptability. Linguistically, life survives. Its animacy is not merely grammatical but neither…
Note from the Board
Note from the Board Elena Glasberg and Elizabeth Wissinger Elena Glasberg and Elizabeth Wissinger Beauty is a killer. It hurts. That is the consensus of the authors collected here. It hurts to be beautiful. And it hurts even more not to be beautiful. This conundrum may explain why the conversation around beauty keeps lingering: the more you critique beauty, the more its mask, its allure, becomes real. If beauty is the hazy cultural fantasy that h…
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