space is the place hum 201 autumn 2005 day 5. today’s itinerary use de certeau to make “place”...
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Space is the place
Hum 201Autumn 2005
Day 5
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Today’s itinerary
• Use de Certeau to make “place” and “space” strange.
• Demonstrate how this is related to embodiment and perception
• Begin to think about the uses of narratives, tours, and maps
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• What does it mean to travel?
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Space and place-common sense
• Space is the territory, often defined as the distance between
• Rene Descartes– Place is a specific place in that territory.
• One place rather than another
– Extension is a primary quality of matter• Space is quantity of extension
• Most of us still think of space as either extension or emptiness
• What about cyberspace?
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Michel de Certeau
• 1925-1986• The Practice of Everyday Life
– French, 1968– Translated into English 1984
• Are we passive consumers?• Not if we examine “ways of
operating”– Often involves seeing how
mediums and objects are used– Involved in a “hidden poiesis”
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Traveler as producer
• Traveler– The terrain is fixed
• Paris is Paris, a path through the woods is still through the woods
• Do we change the terrain when we travel?
– The traveler produces meaning through the practices that they engage in as they traverse the terrain
– Think in terms of how we use objects to create meaning and direction in our life
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Place in de Certeau
• Place is an order– A configuring of positions
• Something is in one place and not another
– Implies a stability or fixity of relationships• Everything is in its place
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Space in de Certeau
• Intersections of mobile elements• Space is produced as an effect of
the operations that orient it and temporalize it
• Space is practiced place– The street is transformed into space
by the walkers on it
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Space and depth• Space is not extension!
• Space is how things are connected and the depth of connections that allows them to present themselves
• Space is practiced and embodied
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Building on Merleau-Ponty
• “space is not the setting (real or logical) in which things are arranged, but the means whereby the position of things becomes possible.” Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception
– “The opacity of the body in movement, gesticulating, walking, taking its pleasure, is what indefinitely organizes a here in relation to an abroad” (de Certeau, 110)
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Tours and maps
• Maps are of places• Tours are of spaces• Maps have disengaged themselves
from specific itineraries– No longer embodied– Work against the strangeness of
travel by orienting places
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Nova orbis tabula. De Wit 1688
http://www.maphistory.info
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Stories and travel
• Stories transform spaces into places– Is this purely metaphorical?
• “Place” as contingent and continually needing redefining
• Stories change our connections to the world
• They redefine a relationship between the self and the world
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What’s next?
• Still packing our bags• Move from objects, perceptions,
bodies, space• Come to a humanistic definition of
consciousness that is embodied, spatial, and dynamic
• After that we begin the journey• Or has it started?