Every story is a travel story, a spatial practice. It’s interesting how Michel takes the poetry of writing as an example, where the written alphabets are the spaces creation, via travel, whilst the book is then the place created. But morphologically, the organisation a written article to a spatial travelling differs, their journeys and experience maybe coherent and interfering, but at its base, they’re merely at the same modem.
Michel also highlights the idea of “Space is a practiced place”. There’s a distancing between the idea of geometrical places as well as spaces created through anthropology. This reminds me of the idea of conviviality defining spaces, where at the outmost, it situates to the social energy of all sorts of anthropological activities. Unlike community that centralises unity and subjective representations, conviviality is a divergent paradigm that values the joyfulness and free wills of any forms of events and could not be coerced by any ways unless holding special occasions. That means the anthropological space could be easily defined, or shift, or redefined by the means of users and activities.
The sentence “The map gradually wins out over these figures ; it colonies space; it eliminates little by little the pictorial figurations of the practices that produces it.’ interests me a lot. Especially of what we discussed during the tutorial, the idea of boundless maps is as dominant and homogenous as a colonial space when everything are visualised as unity or singular space. This also recalls to the idea of globalisation and the act of peace, with the lack of boundary between countries, regions, urbanscapes and miniatures of stores and buildings, the world felt more globalised and the map is slowly taking it by action.
Bryan Wong Hon Ting
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Well-articulated and thoughtful response to the reading on de Certeau – especially appreciate your points on “conviviality urban space” that aptly summarizes your understanding of Certeau’s attitude towards spaces and places. Well done!