Reviews

The Textual Life of Airports: Reading the Culture of Flight by Christopher Schaberg

emmkayt's review against another edition

2.0

I was interested in the topic - airports and the culture of flight. But this was a hard slog, heavy on the Derrida, Baudrillard, and academic jargon.

sdbecque's review against another edition

4.0

I started reading this because I was working on a review that involved a big scene at an airport. It arrived too late to be much help for that review, but I'm glad I read this because it is a beautiful meditation on the textual life of airports. Or to put it another way, the way that airports are represented in art and literature. Some of the work on airport artwork, which is generally so ephemeral was really interesting.