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Spheres theory:
talking to myself about the poetics of space
We are simply not capable of continuing the old
cosmology of ancient Europe that rested on equating
the house and the home with the world.
Jakob von Uexkull: it was an error to believe that
the human world constituted a shared stage for all
living creatures. Each living creature has his own
special stage that is just as real as the special stage
that the humans havethis insight offers us a
completely new view of the universe as something
that does not consists of a single soap bubble that
we have blown up so large as to go well beyond our
horizons and assume infinite proportions, and is
instead made up of millions of closely demarcated
soap
bubbles
that
overlap
and
intersect
everywhere.
Vital space can only be explained in terms of the
priority of the inside.
Modernity renders the issue of residence explicit:
Benjamin in the arcades project starts from the
anthropological assumption that people in all epochs
dedicate themselves to creating interiors. The
capitalist man in the 19th century expresses this
need by using the most cutting-edge technology in
order to immunize existence by constructing
protective islands: he thus uses glass, iron and other
prefabricated parts in order to build the largest
possible interior (Paxtons Crystal Palace, London,
1951: the first hyper-interior that offers a perfect
idea of psychedelic capitalism). The arcade heralds
the abolition of the outside world. It abolishes
outdoor markets and brings them indoor, into a
closed spherethis sparks a trend that is perfected
in the 20th century apartment design as well as in
shopping mall and sport-stadium design.
4 stages o explication of the phenomenon of
residence
-The house as a place of waiting:
Compulsion to wait: houses are initially machines
to kill time. In fact in a primitive farmhouse people
wait for a silent event out in the fields, one they
cannot influence but which, thank God, happens
regularly-namely the moment when the planted
seeds bear fruit.
-The house a s a place of reception
This kind of being in the house has been challenged
in the course of the middle ages, with the raise of
the urban culture o, since then a growing proportion
of European population has been seized by a
culture of impatience, of not being able to wait
Weather-modification (Zeus)
In a paper (Weather as o Force Multiplier: Owning the
Weather in 2025) presented on June 17, 1996 the
Pentagon sketched the parameters of future
ionospheric warfare. The aim was to name the
conditions under which the US could affirm their role
as the absolute air and space force in 2025 The
range of weather weapons will include: the
maintaining or hindering of vision in air space
thunderstorm enhancement and modification:
rainfall prevention over enemy territories and the
inducing of artificial drought
Modern meteorology (a term derived, in the 17th
century, from the Greek meteoros, or high in the
air) has through its most successfully publicized
form, the so called weather report, imposed on the
populations of modern nation states and political
media-communities a historically new kind of
conversation, best described as a climatological
briefing. Modern societies are weather-chat
communities.(p 85)
Modern weather reporting turns national populations
into the spectators of a climate theatre, one which
also continually urges receivers to compare their
personal perception with the status report and form
their own opinion about current weather events. By
describing the weather as natures performance to
the community, meteorologists muster individuals
into an audience of connoisseurs under a common
sky; of each individual, they make a climate-critic
who evaluates natures latest performance according
to his own personal tastes. In periods of poor
weather, the more demanding climate critics fly
copious numbers to regions in which they can expect
an acceptable performance with sufficient
probability- which is why between Xmas Eve and
Epiphany , mauritious and Morocco are awash with
weather dissdents from Germany and France.
So long as meteorology presents itself as a natural
science and nothing else, it can pass in silence over
the question of the weathers possible author. Taken
as a purely natural context, climate is something
that is entirely self-made, ceaselessly proceeding
from one state to the next.
the modern weather report speaks of that which
happens just by itself and according to its own
conditions, of how it happens, and of that which, in
the best cases, gets 2reflected2 as objective quality
data in a subjective medium. Nevertheless, modern
meteorology is allied to a progressive
subjectivization of the weather:
because it increasingly relates climatic givens to
the opinion, calculations, and reactions of
populations,
second because the objective climate, both regional
and global, must increasingly be described as the
result of the life-styles of modern industrial societies
(expectorations, emissions)people of the modern
age are clients and co-causers of the weather.
BRUNO LATOUR
Spheres and networks:
two ways to reinterpret globalization
imagine on what conditions the world, at the time o
globalization, could be made habitable
Spheres and networks might not have much in
common, but they have both been elaborated
against the same sort of enemy: an ancient and
constantly deeper apparent divide between nature
and society.
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