AN OVERVIEW OF THE RESEARCH PROJECT ‘VIATOPIAS’
Primary Theorists:
- Foucault – historical
analysis of space as thought. Hetrotopia / Utopia. ‘Vision as culturally
determined’ – Mathew Rampley p113 ‘the O of WB’
- Benjamin – the ‘Flaneur’, rereading the
city, telescoping perceptions of time, theology of ‘other’ in the form of
the catastrophe. Sociology of space.
- Deleuze – a step on from Foucault – ‘age
of control via communication’. A modern reading of the Baroque. Offering the fold as a methodology. Analysis
of Leibniz – pan organicism. Nomadism. Smooth (/ striated space) – leading
to multiple optics. Haptic understanding of space. Rhisomatic connexion
and producetion of space.
- Lefebvre – the Production of
space – ‘not text but texture’ Performative space, acted not read –
sensory space. The politics of space.
- Vidler – tracing the
psychological idea of space – Pascal & Freud through agoraphobia &
claustrophobia to Simmel, Kracauer, and Benjamin.
- Barthes - semiology &
the urban, analysis of photo and film.
- Vrillo – cyberspace urbanism
– theorist of speed, time& the internet.
- Bachelard - ‘Poetics of
space’ – Space as a mental structure, memory / dreaming, how we bring
meaning to space. Phenomenology.
- Soja – ‘Thirdspace’
Trialectics of geographic experience and reality.
- Rogoff – postcolonial,
visual culture of geography.
- Merleau-Ponty –
Phenomenology of perception.
Secondary
Theorists
- Casey – Philosophical
history of ‘the fate of place’
- Buci-Glucksmann – analysis
of Benjamin that links the Baroque as ‘other’ – a ‘complementary reality’
to postmodernism.
- Harbison – a thorough
analysis of all things baroque
- Bruno – links Film and
Architecture with Travel via gender in a baroque manner.
- Rendall - the connections
between gender / body / architecture.
- Bal – politicised viewing
constructed by ‘narativisation’ of present tense viewing – leading to a
haptic or ‘baroque’ understanding.