With the present work, I shall commence a series of two articles which deal with the scientific perspective on questions of space and place, through the presentation of the following historically-based texts, written by three physicists: the first is ‘The Discovery of Dynamics: A Study from a Machian Point of View of the Discovery and the Structure of Dynamical Theories’…
What does the Portuguese football star Cristiano Ronaldo (CR7) have to do with concepts of place and space? A lot: specifically, I believe the investigation of CR7’s gestures on a football pitch can give us some food for thought on the seamless continuity between ‘body’, ‘place’, and ‘existence’. Existence in place – I mean – actual, concrete, bodily existence in…
I briefly come back to the renewed sense of place I’ve spoken about in the previous article – What Is Place? What Is Space? – where I’ve said that ‘place is any real entity emerging from inorganic, organic, social and symbolic – or intellectual – processes’ (definition I-R. a); more extendedly – and including a basic definition of reality on…
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, following important scientific advances, a reconsideration of basic natural phenomena is underway, as well as a reconsideration of the relationship between man and nature. This fact will lead to the formalization of a new post-Newtonian cosmology, which means a new conception of nature and, therefore, a new model of society. This new mode…