{"product_id":"le-plaisir-de-la-cote-the-pleasure-of-the-coast","title":"Le plaisir de la côte \/ The Pleasure of the Coast","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"\u003eby J. R. Carpenter\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"\u003ePamenar Press\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"\u003ePaperback, 2023\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"\u003e100 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"\u003eLe plaisir de la côte \/ The Pleasure of the Coast\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"\u003e revels in the sketchy subjectivities lurking beneath the smooth surface of the science of imperial measurement, blurring colonial boundaries by calling attention to the messy moments and methods in which they were drawn. The title and much of the text borrows from Roland Barthes, \u003ci\u003eLe plaisir du texte\u003c\/i\u003e (1973). The word ‘text’ has been replaced with the word ‘coast’ throughout. This détourned philosophy infuses excerpts of scientific writing by the late-eighteenth century French hydrographer Charles François Beautemps-Beaupré with desire. These libidinally-charged phrases intermingle with passages from \u003ci\u003eSuzanne et le Pacific\u003c\/i\u003e (1921), a symbolist novel by Jean Giraudoux, in which a young French woman wins a trip around the world and becomes shipwrecked on a Pacific island in roughly the same region surveyed by Beautemps-Beaupré 1791-1793. This tripartite language system unfolds in fragments, offering an inchoate yet insistent opposition to the mechanistic view of science based on the assumption of an objective reality. \u003ci\u003eThe Pleasure of the Coast\u003c\/i\u003e is imperfectly bilingual. Both the original French and the English translations have been appropriated, exaggerated, détourned, corrected, and corrupted. Who, then, is the author of this work? The author is not dead. The author is multiple: multimedia, multilingual, polyvocal. \"Which body?\" Barthes asks, \"We have several.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"\u003eJ. R. Carpenter \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"\u003eis an artist, writer, and researcher working across performance, print, and digital media. Questions of place, displacement, migration, colonialism, and climate pervade her work. Her digital poem \u003ci\u003eThe Gathering Cloud\u003c\/i\u003e won the New Media Writing Prize 2016. Her print collection \u003ci\u003eAn Ocean of Static\u003c\/i\u003e was highly commended for the Forward Prize 2019. Her collection \u003ci\u003eThis is a Picture of Wind\u003c\/i\u003e was listed in The Guardian’s best poetry books of 2020 and included in the Digital Storytelling exhibition at The British Library 2023.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55305502720334,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/0680\/6606\/files\/92vgz5bk.png?v=1769962349","url":"https:\/\/eastbristolbooks.co.uk\/products\/le-plaisir-de-la-cote-the-pleasure-of-the-coast","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}