Imageability and Form in the Grande Bibliothèque du Québec
The Baroque as a More-Than-Representational Technique toward the Paradoxical Particularity of Experience in Space
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4476102 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sean Robertson (0000-0003-4294-6884, University of Alberta, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1091-1108 |
| Publication date | 2013-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/d19510 |
| OpenAlex | W2035192576 |
| Language | FR |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 32 |
Because of an inattention to architectural form in building events, architectural geography has yet to fully explore the subjective aspects of the spatial politics of affect. And because of an analytical focus on the programming of affect, it has undertheorized affective styles which may unsettle the performativity of space. Architectural theorists call such spaces ambiguous or contradictory. They variously insist that baroque space is crucial to redressing individualism and capitalism insofar as it encourages relationality, democracy, and resubjectification. I take a more circumscribed approach to the more-than-representational and show that formal spatial ambiguity produces delight and provokes a paradoxical sort of looking, feeling(s), and thinking (ie, the particularity of experience). My argument is based on observant participation and interviews on the affective consistencies (here, in-betweenness) of perception, speed, and ascension in the Grand Bibliothèque du Québec. As for the political merits of the baroque, inasmuch as its tensions strike a contrast with the rhythm of the performativity of space, it must be considered a complement to more expressly representational attempts to wrest loose from the disciplinary doing of the world
Aesthetics · Affect (linguistics · Art · Baroque · Epistemology · Linguistics · Performativity · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Visual arts · Communication · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Philosophy · Photography and Visual Culture · Spatial and Cultural Studies
The Conscience of the Eye
Spatial Formations
The Built Environment and Social Theory
Interview
Towards a critical geography of architecture
'A Tall Storey … but, a Fact Just the Same'
Geography and Architecture
Notes on Materiality and Sociality
Building an idea
Enacting geographies
Emotions and affect in recent human geography
An essay on ascending Glastonbury Tor
Moving cities
Airports, mobility and the calculative architecture of affective control
Intensities of feeling
Ambient Power
Hybrid Geographies
More on ‘big things
The Aesthetics of Affect
Cultural geography
Architecture/Affect/Inhabitation
Afterwords
A 'building event' of fear
Architectures of Affect
The Fold
A geography of big things
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2017 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |