NOTES ON SPACE
Giotto, The Peruzzi Chapel, Basilica Santa Croce
c. 1315
FAT SPACE
letters / classical / God
catalogue-domination1
symmetry
aesthetics / analogue-visual / then
semantics / rhetoric/ belief
one of a kind / unique / archetype2
drama / fascinating
false - fictitious
visual - representation - symbolic
transparent picture plane
perspective
[3D] “deep” (space) - compression
contained (space) has form
strong boundary - closed
object of space
centripetal3
manufactured / local
historic / traditional
monarchy / hierarchy
teleological - kingdom of heaven
1 Genesis 1:26 ...and have dominion.
2 A recurrent symbol in literature, art, or mythology.
3 Acting in a direction toward a center or axis.
Architectonic Composition (1),
1926; oil on canvas, 35 7/16 x 25 3/16 in.
FLAT SPACE
numbers / modern / corporation
database4-surveillance
asymmetry
science / digital-mental / now
syntax / grammar / knowledge
ready made5 / generic / prototype6
mathematics / analytical
real - authentic
mental - actual - literal
opaque picture plane
[2D] - orthogonal matrix
[2D] shallow (space) - tension
unbounded(space) is shapeless
no boundary - open
object in space
centrifugal7
natural / universal
present / progressive
socialism / equality
circular - “new and improved” (Vattimo)8
4 SQL Structured Query Language
5 Marcel Duchamp.
6 Original model on which something is patterned.
7 Acting in a direction away from a center or axis.
8 The End of Modernity...
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