Culture/Geographicity What concept of culture to approach contemporary spaces and spatialities?
2. Culture, What Is It? Misunderstandings, ideologies, theories.
Culture: so many definitions Culture = the human part of the world, the opposite of nature. Culture = social identity, the fixed part of human societies, the opposite of historicity (> culturalism). Culture = the transmissible component of human activities, the opposite of dissipative activities. Culture = cognitive productions (art + science + philosophy + technology + techniques), the opposite of affective life. Culture = the reflexive component of human production, the opposite of non-reflexive practices
21. Tourism and Space. Cultures and the Culture of Mobility.
Nearness as Human Essential Orientation? Im Dasein liegt eine wesenhafte Tendenz auf Nähe Martin Heidegger, Sein und Seit, 1935.
What Homo (Sapiens) replied to Martin (Heidegger).
Invention of Places and the Industry of Elsewhere.
22. Society, Culture, Culturalism. What do you mean by cultural turn?
A Cultural Turn? The Crucial Importance of Mental Realities: Dematerialisation. Analytical Shift Example: Recognition. The Strength of Non-Classic, Non-Economic Social Ties: Complexification. Substantive Shift. Example: Gender. The Risk of Freezing Social Dynamics: Culturalism.
Dangers of culturalism as a neo-structuralism. The Big Four: Structural Anthropology, Structural Linguistics, Marxism, and Psychoanalysis. Society as a Blocked Set of Immobile Structures and Identities. Denying Historicity. Agents vs. Actors. The Post-Modern Touch: Ideologizing Science.
Beyond Culturalism: Communalism. Gemeinschaft vs. Gesellschaft Different principles: biological (ethnic, gender, age), territorial, divine (religion), state (nation), economic ( class ) Possible Hybridisation: cast (biological + economic). The Crucial Points: Chosen vs. Imposed Groups, Individual, Autonomy vs. Dependency, Fixed vs. History-Mobile Societies.
23. Culture as Reflexive Production. Autonomous yet interdependent dimensions
Cultural Productions. Subjective Affective The good: Persons «Passion», intimacy, intraet inter-personal affects, feelings, inclinations, tastes Cognitive The beautiful: Subjects Art, aesthetics Objective The just: Citizens Ethics, law, politics The true: Actors «Reason», philosophy, sciences, technologies, techniques
Cultural Productions. Subjective Objective Affective The good: Persons «Passion», intimacy, intraet inter-personal affects, feelings, inclinations, tastes Spatial pleasures, spatial pains. The just: Citizens Ethics, law, politics Cognitive The beautiful: Subjects Art, aesthetics Landscape, zenithal, other spatial aesthetics The true: Actors «Reason», philosophy, sciences, technologies, techniques Space of the law, spatial justice, spatial politics Spatial cognition, spatial capital
24. Geographicity as Culture. The Construction of Spatial Agency and Spatial Environments.
Geographicity as Culture: Actors, Objects, and Environments Actors [ Objects Environments
Geographicity as Culture : The Category of Space Absolute Relative Locational Space is a container. Newton Classical Geography Space is an attribute. Descartes Relational Space is a property. Berkeley Cultural Geography Space is a dimension. Leibniz «Spatial Analysis» Social theory of space
Geographicity as Culture : Distances Contact >< Remoteness Seclusion >< Ubiquity
Geographicity as Culture : Scale, Place, Area Place >< Area Local> Regional > National > Continental > Global
Geographicity as Culture : Metrics Metrics of Limits Topographic: Borderland Topological: Borderline Internal Metrics Topographic: Territory Horizont Linguistic or cultural space, neighbourhood in a city Country Rural region, state Topological: Network Rhizome Relational space of an individual Grid TV network
Geographicity as Culture : Interspatialities Juxtaposition: Interface Inclusion: Nesting Superposition: Co-spatiality Hyperspatiality: Synchorisation
Geographicity as Culture : Space and Spatiality Environment: Space Actor: Spatiality
Geographicity as Culture : Space as Spatiality