Space

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani defines space as the world of simultaneity, where all the parts are co-present, partes extra partes12. He thus implicitly contrasts it with time and draws from this a distinction between the arts: painting, sculpture and architecture are arts of space, in which the left, the middle and the right of a painting are given at the same time3. In his view, philosophy gives priority to the relation to extension up until Kant, whose great reversal makes space the a priori form of external intuitions, without which nothing could be seen4. He refuses to regard it as an objective receptacle: space depends on the conceptions and the imaginary of an era, as shown by the abstract border that appeared at the end of the seventeenth century, or by the infinite and homogeneous universe that the scientific revolution substitutes for the hierarchical cosmos56. In Nerval, he reads Rousseau's tomb as a centre of gravity that distorts space, in the manner of relativity7. He also associates space with the stage and with illusion, and holds that geopolitics remains on the surface8.

1. 1La Musique de l'Histoire26 Apr 2015 · 16:28
2. 2Racine4 Feb 2019 · 2:54
3. 3Pagani Parle Musique • Introduction au podcast23 May 2022 · 1:07
4. 4#4.4 Angélique (de Nerval)15 Jan 2018 · 28:45
5. 59 #11 Comment des sciences de l'histoire peuvent-elles être réelles?7 Jan 2021 · 1:17:57
6. 69 #11 Comment des sciences de l'histoire peuvent-elles être réelles?7 Jan 2021 · 1:22:02
7. 7#4.7 Angélique (de Nerval)12 Apr 2018 · 7:27
8. 8La Musique de l'Histoire26 Apr 2015 · 1:09:00

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