Pratiques de la ville et inconscient urbain : déplacements de l’utopie dans le discours critique de l’urbanisme
Journal Title: Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Practical Philosophy - Year 2010, Vol 2, Issue 2
Abstract
This article tackles the critical approaches to urbanism as power-knowledge developed since the 1960-1970 based on the instruments of semiological and psychoanalytical analysis. From this viewpoint, we come back to the classic analyses of F. Choay on the mechanisms of utopia – as in the case of Thomas More’s Utopia, also a turning point – as textual fathering matrix and matrix of urban writings in terms of modernist architecture and the constitution of urban rationality. We particularly try to update the unique articulation operated between textual process and spatial projection: making the hypothesis that the impossibility to unify the graphical space of significances and the purposeful space of movements defines the place of an “urban unconscious”, we analyze the means of utopian writing to force this impossible unification and the repressing tendencies that reoccur both in the text and the city and symptomatically touch building desires, historicity, and spatial inscription of power.
Authors and Affiliations
Guillaume Sibertin-Blanc
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP124144
- DOI -
- Views 112
- Downloads 0
Behind the “Death of the Author”: Radical French Philosophy and the Fascination of the Sacred
Jean Christophe Goddard,[i]Violence et subjectivité. Derrida, Deleuze, Maldiney[/i], Paris: Vrin, 2008
“Blasphemy” or “groundless imagination”? The battle of theological grievances between Descartes and Malebranche
The goal of this article is to analyze a metaphysical and theological argument between Descartes and Nicolas Malebranche about the relationship between the eternal truths and God. We try to see whether the criticism that...
Rationalité et vérité dans les sciences morales et politiques. Le problème de l’action
Gadamer’s view on truth and understanding does not offer a real solution on Dilthey’s problem, because it involves a concept of language that doesn’t admit the communication between text, action and history in the same t...
Performativity and Heidegger’s Hermeneutics of Facticity
For a compatibility of Heideggers Contributions with today's questions of meaning and performative processes of self-interpretation, Rüdiger Rimpler recently suggested to draw on studies from the field of performativity...
Thinking Differently: Continental Philosophy versus Philosophy of Religion
Morny Joy (ed.), Continental Philosophy and Philosophy of Religion, New York, London, Dordrecht, Heidelberg: Springer 2011