Cultural History of Vertigo

Anindya Raychaudhuri is Senior Lecturer at the University of St Andrews, UK.

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Vertigo-as-Symptom and Vertigo-as-Metaphor1. ‘Nothing is quite where it is supposed to be’: Negotiating Vertiginous Spaces 2. ‘Moving in a hyperbolic sort of way’: Speed and Vertigo 3. ‘What if you jumped?”: Acrophobia and the Vertigo of Heights 4. ‘Avoid shopping centres like the plague’: The Supermarket and the Dizziness of Capitalism5. ‘We can’t just go to McDonalds’: Ingestion, Expulsion and Vertigo as Abject 6. ‘Not quite right in the world’: Vertigo and Digital Technology 7. ‘My life was already smaller’: Pandemic as Vertiginous Disruption Conclusion: A Hermeneutics of Vertigo Notes References

This book offers a fresh and compelling take on the cultural history of vertigo. Engagingly written, it is an effortless, informative read.