Tuesday, 10th November 2009, 19.00
LECTURE
VIOREL VIZUREANU: SKETCH FOR A TYPOLOGY OF SPATIALITY
What was entitled in a rather pretentious manner as "Sketch for a Typology of Spatiality", I would add now "For a Historical Typology of Spatiality", essentially hides in its substance two parts quite distinct from one another, anyway, two parts that could find their own separate development and that could, undoubtedly (a fact that anyone will understand), to reach a considerable amplitude. We take the risk of disabling certain references to attain their punctual desired effect, to remain somewhat unclear, wagering on what one could call a possible efficiency of the whole.
A first part will try, through some ideas and examples to convince us of what could be considered a subjective theory of space - which doesn't mean that space should be considered in the sense that dominates nowadays in Romanian, "subjectivity" in the sense of a "psychological comfort", of an irreducible reference to oneself that implies a de plano refusal of any "objective" elements or better said, "intersubjective".
A second part will attempt to offer an image, maybe simplifying, maybe itself dependent on a classical-metaphysical type of vision (meaning in this context, modern-metaphysical) on the cultural evolution of the concept of space understood in a broad sense, an image of what we could call as the main paradigms related to the spatiality mentioned earlier, that is the "archaic" space, the "modern" space and the "postmodern" space, with a focus on the last two and the relationships between them, as well as what nowadays seem- after the postmodern "delirium" of the last decades - some attempts to rethink/question postmodernity from this point of view, especially in the social field.
Viorel Vizureanu, with a PHD in philosophy, is professor of philosophy at University of Bucharest. He published several essays, articles and studies in national and international magazines and he is the author of different philosophy volumes, such as "Descartes", "Philosophical Projects of Modernity", vol.I and "Sketch for the History of Renaissance Logic".
Image: Sebastian Moldovan, Future Garden, 2007-2009. Courtesy of the artist.
A first part will try, through some ideas and examples to convince us of what could be considered a subjective theory of space - which doesn't mean that space should be considered in the sense that dominates nowadays in Romanian, "subjectivity" in the sense of a "psychological comfort", of an irreducible reference to oneself that implies a de plano refusal of any "objective" elements or better said, "intersubjective".
A second part will attempt to offer an image, maybe simplifying, maybe itself dependent on a classical-metaphysical type of vision (meaning in this context, modern-metaphysical) on the cultural evolution of the concept of space understood in a broad sense, an image of what we could call as the main paradigms related to the spatiality mentioned earlier, that is the "archaic" space, the "modern" space and the "postmodern" space, with a focus on the last two and the relationships between them, as well as what nowadays seem- after the postmodern "delirium" of the last decades - some attempts to rethink/question postmodernity from this point of view, especially in the social field.
Viorel Vizureanu, with a PHD in philosophy, is professor of philosophy at University of Bucharest. He published several essays, articles and studies in national and international magazines and he is the author of different philosophy volumes, such as "Descartes", "Philosophical Projects of Modernity", vol.I and "Sketch for the History of Renaissance Logic".
Image: Sebastian Moldovan, Future Garden, 2007-2009. Courtesy of the artist.