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The case
for reopening the debate on space in our time has been succinctly put by Verona
Conley in Rethinking Technologies: „Now, in a world where the notion of space
has been completely changed through electronic simultaneity, where the computer
appears to go faster than the human brain, or where ‘virtual reality’
replaces ‘reality’, how do philosophy, critical theory, or artistic
practices deal with those shifts?“ Total electronic simultaneity, real-time,
or absolute instantaneousness, if this were indeed possible, would not only mean
the end of time and space but of human life as well. Fortunately, we are still
far from having fully achieved this, and the broker who has, through
instantaneous e-mail communication, just initiated a profitable capital flow
a-round the globe, comes quickly to realize the impact of the continuance of
sequential time and extensional space when he leaves his computer and gets into
a traffic jam.
Today we no longer derive much comfort from Kant’s conviction that time and
space are a priori forms of perception and are more inclined to embrace Edward
Casey’s phenomenological approach and his assumption that the concreteness of
place takes precedence over space. One important concomitant of Casey’s
philosophy of place is that it enhances the relevance of the body, „emplacement“
and „embodiment“ being mutually constitutive, another is the renewed
importance it bestows on the „local and regional“. Obviously, the
terminological field space, place, environment has to be continuously redefined
in accordance with both the changing conventions of viewing and with the
socio-political power struggles of every age.
Aus
dem Inhalt:
Introduction
by
Lothar Hönnighausen
Theories
and Methods
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Winfried
Fluck: Imaginary Space; or, Space as Aesthetic
Object
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Heide
Ziegler: ‘Place’ in the Internet Age or, Borges
and I
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Hanjo
Berressem: Emergent Eco:logics: Cultural and Natural
Environments in Recent Theory and Literature
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Ulfried
Reichardt: Space, Nature, and Landscape in Recent
Theory and Poetry
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Sabine
Sielke: Spatial Aesthetics, Ironic Distances, and
Realms of Liminality: Measuring Theories of (Post-) Modernism
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James
L. Peacock : From Space to Place Environment
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Cornelius
Browne: (Eco)logic in Utah Landscapes: Edward Abbey
and Terry Tempest Williams
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Louise
Westling: Monstrous Technologies in Silko, Castillo,
Ortiz, and Solnit
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Richard
Grusin: Remediating Nature: National Parks as
Mediated Public Space
Space
in Fiction, Film, and Drama
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Gerhard
Hoffmann: Space as Form and Force in the Novel
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Christian
Berkemeier: Reading the Void: City Codes and Urban
Space in Contemporary American Fiction
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Pearl
A. McHaney: Deconstruction of Public Space in David
Mamet’s Oleanna
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Reingard
M. Nischik: “Once Upon a Time in the West”: The
Changing Function of Landscape in the American Western Film, 1968-2000
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Aurélie
Guillain: The Construction of the South in The
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Space
in Poetry and Art
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Frank
Kearful: ‘Going Around in Circles’: Wallace
Stevens, Amy Clampitt, and Rita Dove
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Diana
v. Finck: ‘Nothing-in-Between’: Silence, Empty
Spaces and Separateness as Agents in Postmodern Poetry
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Carina
Plath: Los Angeles – A Phenomenal City. West Coast
Artists in the 1970s
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Wolfgang
Werth: Trash and Space: The Uncanny Art of Tony
Oursler
‘Real’
and Constructed Space
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Christian
W. Thomsen: Arthur Erickson as Architectural Link
between Canada and USA, between Old and New World Cultural Concepts
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Bernd
Streich: Protecting Open Space: The Urban Sprawl
Discussion in the USA and in Germany
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Charles
Aiken / Kyle T. Rector: Geography and
Socio-Political Space
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Edward
M. Bergman: Regional Uniqueness or Global Uniformity?
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