![]() ![]() ![]() Its overarching message is that the narrator’s world, Flatland, is not the only world possible. Flatland is an exercise in interrogating one’s present reality-defamiliarizing it, denaturalizing it, making it strange. Yet from our contemporary vantage, the book typifies still another genre: experiment in environmental humanities. In its day, Flatland was received as equal parts social satire, science fiction, and geometry lesson. Through these sojourns across space and dimensionality, the narrator is forced to reexamine what he once took to be the limits of the geometrically possible. Abbott, Flatland follows its protagonist, A Square, as he accidentally stumbles from the comfort of his 2D world into the worlds of 1D Lineland and 3D Spaceland, each with their own distinct, geometrically-determined social orders and ways of life. Written in 1884 by British schoolmaster and theologian Edwin A. In a two-dimensional universe populated by a hierarchical society of geometric figures, a square is persecuted for. ![]()
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