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…
The traditional and well-established meaning of a concept crystallized into a specific word should be the starting point for any investigation that aims at questioning that concept. In this article, I will list all of the different entries and the different senses that the noun place and the noun space have according to the Oxford English Dictionary. Immediately after that…
1. Young man at his window This is just common sense: look out the window of your home or office. What do you see? You just see places. A bench, a tree, a park where people can talk and children can play, a square, a street, a building, a mural on the facade of a building, a bridge, the sun,…
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…