Towards a Typology of Spatial Representations
Towards a Typology of Spatial Representations

Summary/Abstract: My paper is concerned with a tentative categorisation of the various modes of representing space that have shaped and continue to shape modern identity. Viewing the relationship between the subject and space as reciprocal and productive (in the line suggested by French philosopher’s Henri Lefebvre’s seminar work on the Production of Space), it is concerned mainly with the possibilities of representing space in an age of antifoundational, aestheticised thought such as the present stage of “late modernity”. Its theoretical sources are mainly sociological and philosophical, but traced back to a sort of aesthetic variety of active agency that shapes spaces according to its own versions of identity, here tentatively termed as “symbolic”, “allegoric” and “reflexive”.

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