This book is about first contacts-intercultural spaces invaded and transgressed upon by explorers, both real and fictional.

David Tomas is an assistant professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Ottawa.

Introduction -- Encounters in Intercultural Space -- Transcultural Space -- Parasites and Open Circuits -- Of Trees and Men -- Technologies of Representation, Transcultural Space, and Transcultural Beings -- Imaginary Geographies and Beyond -- Sound and Intercultural Contact Spaces -- Traumatic Photographs, Boundary Phenomena, and Transcultural Space