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The Beach Machine

The Beach Machine

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Aggressively rebounding after recessions and the pandemic, sprawling landscapes of tourism in the Mediterranean continue to build upon the iconic spatial typology of sea & sun vacationing: the beach. But behind the leisurely scattered bodies and the quiescent summer shores, beachfronts are assembled as intensely ordered infrastructures for the heavy machineries of tourism. Approaching the beach as an operational socio-technical landscape, this book unpacks stories of construction, programming, and maintenance: from traces of moving sands in Lefkada island to mirror postwar developments in Delos and Mykonos islands, and from historic and bodily excursions to workings of the Athenian riviera to rituals of eco-certification under Blue Flags. The texts frame the beach as a machine, one with protocols of function and metabolic needs, studying how it directs the capture of land and bodies, while establishing forms of environmental control.

96 pages, 102 x 162 mm
illustrations: color and b/w
printing: offset
language: English
1st print fall 2022

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edited by
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David Bergé
Phevos Kallitsis

From the engineering feats that shape coastal zones to the social dynamics and environmental challenges that redefine the beach as we (think we) know it, each text in this book provides a new perspective on this spatial typology. By approaching the Aegean shores as a microcosm for global coastal cultures, the authors challenge distinctions between engineered and natural, urban and rural, leisure and work.
– Elvia Wilk, 2024
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Country — Greece

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About — kyklàda.press is a series of compact books initiated by artist David Bergé; and grounded in the Aegean archipelago, the island group marked by Izmir, Athens, and Crete. A publishing experiment in embodied, critical, and material forms of writing, each kyklàda book emerges from one central theme. Five to six contributors from different practices craft each book together, relaying knowledge derived from lived experiences on islands: archaeologies of moods, expressions of desire and grief, affection and pain, constructed landscapes, human and social geographies, and historical (dis)continuities.

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