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Menschen weisen '''affektive Reaktionen auf Veränderungen''' in ihrer Umwelt auf. Eine der Herausforderung besteht darin, dass wir aufgrund der überwältigenden '''Konkretion der Symptome des Klimawandels bei dessen gleichzeitiger Abstraktheit''' – wie zum Beispiel der globalen Erwärmung – jeden Tag von Timothy Mortons sogenannten '''Hyperobjekten verfolgt werden'''.29 Diese lassen sich nicht immer direkt visuell erfassen, '''wiederholen sich permanent''' in Grund und Effekt, sind aber stets in einer '''liminalen und beunruhigenden Form''' präsent. | Menschen weisen '''affektive Reaktionen auf Veränderungen''' in ihrer Umwelt auf. Eine der Herausforderung besteht darin, dass wir aufgrund der überwältigenden '''Konkretion der Symptome des Klimawandels bei dessen gleichzeitiger Abstraktheit''' – wie zum Beispiel der globalen Erwärmung – jeden Tag von Timothy Mortons sogenannten '''Hyperobjekten verfolgt werden'''.29 Diese lassen sich nicht immer direkt visuell erfassen, '''wiederholen sich permanent''' in Grund und Effekt, sind aber stets in einer '''liminalen und beunruhigenden Form''' präsent. | ||
===== '''Places and non-places, Marc Auge, S. 77 - 79''' ===== | |||
The '''presence of the past in a present that supersedes it but still lays claim to it:''' it is in this reconciliation that Jean Starobinski sees the essence of modernity. In a recent article he points out in this connection that certain authors, indubitably representative of modernity in art, outlined | |||
the possibility of a polyphony in which the virtually infinite interlacing of destinies, actions, thoughts and reminiscences would rest on a bass line that chimed the hours of the terrestrial day, and marked the position that used to be (and could still be) occupied there by ancient ritual. | |||
These '''''<nowiki/>'premodern figures of continuous temporality,''''' which the modern writer tries to show he has not forgotten even as he is becoming free of them' are also specific spatial figures from a world which since the Middle Ages, as Jacques Le Goff has shown, had built itself around its church and bell tower by reconciling | |||
'''''a recentred space with a reordered time.''''' | |||
Vincent Descombes writes of Proust's Franrroise that she defines a 'rhetorical' territory shared with everyone who is capable of following her reasoning, those whose aphorisms, vocabulary and modes of thought form a 'cosmology ' : what the narrator of Things Past calls the 'Combray philosophy' | |||
'''If a place can be defined as relational, historical and concerned with identity, then a space which cannot be defined as relational, or historical, or concerned with identity will be a non-place.''' | |||
The hypothesis advanced here is that '''''supermodernity produces non-places.''''' meaning spaces which are not themselves anthropological places and which. Unlike Baudelairean modernity, '''do not integrate the earlier places:''' instead these are listed, classified, promoted to the status of '''<nowiki/>'places of memory',''' and assigned to a circumscribed and specific position. | |||
We should add that the same things apply to the non-place as to the place. It never exists in pure form; places reconstitute themselves in it; relations are restored and resumed in it; the 'millennial ruses' of 'the '''invention of the everyday' and 'the arts of doing'''' , so subtly analysed by Michel de Certeau , can clear a path there and deploy their strategies. | |||
Place and non-place are rather like opposed polarities: the first is never completely erased, the second never totally completed; they are like palimpsests on which the scrambled game of identity and relations is ceaselessly rewritten . | |||
But non-places are the real measure of our time; one that could be quantified - with the aid of a few conversions between area, volume and distance – by totalling all the air, rail and motorway routes , the mobile cabins called 'means of transport' (aircraft, trains and road vehicles) , the airports and railway stations, hotel chains, leisure parks, large retail outlets, and finally the complex skein of cable and wireless networks that mobilize extraterrestrial space for the purposes of a communication so peculiar that it often puts the individual in contact only with another image of himself | |||