Today I tested ChatGPT-5 in the field of topological criticism by asking it to prepare a 5-minute academic critical review of my 2014 paper From Space to Place: A Necessary Paradigm Shift in Architecture, where I first outlined the hypothesis of place understood as a systemic and processual notion (place as system of processes). I then transformed the resulting text…
I return to one of the arguments that interested me the most since I entered the spatial debate: the realism of space. This question inevitably connects to the spatial language we use to describe phenomena between concrete and abstract aspects of reality. But, most of all — I will especially argue in the final part of the text — this…
On the risks of thoughts entangled in space (i.e., thoughts entangled in metaphors or abstract notions used to describe concrete facts, happenings, or events): … all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.[1] George Eliot, Middlemarch. ‘Capita a ognuno di noi, sul serio o per scherzo, scoprire che…