Waiting for Geography

Bibliographic Data

ID4140357
AuthorsMarcus A Doel (0000-0002-8892-2709, Department of Geography, University of Wales Swansea, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, Wales, corresponding author)
Year2004
Volume36
Issue3
Pages451-460
Publication date2004-03-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/a3657
OpenAlexW2079079441
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited14

The editors of this issue of the journal called for a response to the question: 'What next?' Instead of offering a programmatic or visionary statement, I endeavour to amplify the sense of suspense that would ordinarily be foreclosed by answering the question directly. This is achieved by playing off the literal and colloquial meanings of the question: 'What next?', 'What more absurd, shocking, or surprising thing is possible?' The upshot of this encounter is an undecidable vacillation between the probable and the improbable, the rational and the irrational, and the expected and the unexpected. By alluding to both realism and surrealism, and drawing on programmation, speculation, and fabulation, I deploy some poststructuralist and materialist motifs in order to ensure that the future of human geography will remain in perpetual suspense and thereby open to those aleatory encounters that come from who knows where

Epistemology · Irrational number · Linguistics · Materialism · Speculation · Undecidable problem · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought · Mathematics · Philosophy

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