‘a Legge d’‘o Munno – Three Sketches on Spatial Justice
2015; De Gruyter; Volume: 16; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1515/gj-2015-0003
ISSN2194-5675
Autores Tópico(s)Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation
ResumoAbstract Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos’s Spatial Justice excavates the spatio-legal through a handful of innovative concepts: body, continuum, space, atmosphere, lawscape and, of course, spatial justice. This review aims to contribute to the debate around what is an admirable scholarly endeavour by offering three sketches. These aim to facilitate a sensory intuition of the leap in spatial awareness that the book encourages in the reader: Boccioni’s Unique Forms of Continuity in Space , M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village and Eduardo De Filippo’s play Filumena Marturano . The three sketches also introduce a reworking of Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos’s spatial thinking through a social constructionist lens, attempting to clarify a few points. How the body is a collective composed in assemblages. How space amounts to the spac ing of bodies in a continuum. And how the difference between space and law collapses into the lawscape, once space is understood as “normed” by bodies moving and staying still. Finally, amidst the call of conflicting emplacements, spatial justice ( ‘a legge d’‘o munno , as it is named by the protagonist of De Filippo’s play) emerges as possibility for reorientation, sparked by the gradual development of appropriate resources for bodies to account for their positionings before one other, and to coordinate their re-norming of space.
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