Culture
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Culture as reification is perhaps a relatively new theme for us. Reification is a double edged sword. On the one hand, it refers to the life of objects, in the straightforward empirical sense of ‘objects coming to life’ when they are engaged in action. However, at the same time, reification is often identified as a [...]
Space
Social spatialization is, following the same Tardean logic, a specific form of repetition, namely that of ‘imitation’. It is through imitation that spatiality becomes possible as existent. Imitation is easily observed in terms of materiality, which, for example through acts of building, planning and even architectural conceptualization, become necessary preconditions for a space to exist [...]
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“And”, the word that connects, is the real problem for space and culture. And is what enables both the possibility of spatialization, as the virtual-material creation of a relational presence, as well as the possibility for ‘objectification’, as the creation of flows of repetitions of presence, as that which returns and therefore [...]
Berlin Hauptbahnhof as Work in Progress:
Source: http://www.designladen.com/berlin/source/berlin.baustelle.pict3824.html
Introduction
I have been involved in the project called Space and Culture since the mid-1990s. The project had a concept: building up a community of researchers who would be (1) interested in sharing their ideas about how to rethink space through culture and culture through space; (2) daring enough to [...]
Happy Birthday Marshall!
Marshall McLuhan was born and spent his childhood in Edmonton in 1911, so we’re celebrating at the University over the next few months with the Media Ecology Association and a few projects such as Wave.
-Rob