Re: <documenta X><blast> aesthetics-ethics
Ricardo Basbaum (BASBAUM@VMESA.UERJ.BR)
Tue, 22 Jul 97 01:32:40 EST
about the problem of heterotopic brought into discussion by jordan,
we might not forget that Foucault is specially concerned with disjunction,
which leads his preocupations with the space between things and bodies.
So it seems to me the heterotopic space is a disjunctive space.
(the energy of disjunction is called 'divine' by Deleuze/Guattari)
Being worried with the space between we enter into another kind of
preoccupations as well, that is we can focus on what comes from one to
the other, what is exchanged and what is produced directly to the environment:
we come close to the problem of relationship.
I think that perhaps we could add to Foucault's ideas about space the
concept of psychological field, by Kurt Lewin, who linked topology and
psychology. Lewin talked about psychological vital spaces, spaces linked
to subjects. So we can conceive of any group of people as heterotopic spaces,
as disjunctive spaces are superimposed . What makes a group of people react
and relate to each other is trying to experience disjuntion and the space
between, that is, maximum proximity and hetereogenity: a paradoxical, therefore
imprevisible, non-linear experience.
The invisible is the space-between, the forces. Etology and invisible, the
movement of body/mind constructing space, heterotopic spaces and psychology.
Ricardo Basbaum