Since I was an undergraduate student at the School of Architecture, Politecnico di Milano, in the 1990s, the concept of space almost exclusively attracted my attention. I soon learned — from critics and architects — that Architecture was a discipline concerned with space; but it took me a while to understand what that really meant; and it took me even…
Many glibly write about the ‘production of space’ when they imply the making of place.[1] John Agnew Note [1] John A., Agnew. ‘Classics in Human geography Revisited’, Progress in Human Geography, 27, 5 (2003), 613. Cited Work Agnew, John A. ‘Classics in Human geography Revisited’. In Progress in Human Geography, 605-614, 27, 5, 2003. Image Credits Featured Image by Mirko…
I was working on the previous article concerning Heidegger and the Thing when the radio I usually listen to in the background began to playing Billy Idol’s notorious hit, Flesh for Fantasy. That song was one of my favourite in the mid-80s, so I pumped up the volume a little bit and I enjoyed its sound for a couple of…
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name. [1] attributed to Confucius Note In The Analects, Confucius affirms: ‘If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If names be not correct, affairs cannot be carried on to success.’ In: Confucius, The Analects, trans. William E. Soothill (Yokohama: Fukuin Printing…
One of the main tenets of my inquiry into the concepts of space and place can be synthesized by the following assertion: at the fundamental level, for me, things and places are the same. It is as if there is just one entity (or sub-stance, in the metaphysical sense of that which stays under what appears), which I can call…