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- Title
Il nomos, il senso, la geografia regionale.
- Authors
Bonfiglioli, Stefania
- Abstract
In this paper I propose an alternative semantic history of nomos, linking it to sense and the nature of image, rather, of geographical chora as image. In the light of this link, I outline an idea of regional geography as chorography, whose topicality lies, first of all, in being knowledge about sense. My reading of the relationship between nomos and sense differs from both Carl Schmitt's and Gilles Deleuze's, to the same extent that my interpretation of the nature of image, based on Plato's thought, differs from the interpretation they respectively offer of Plato's legacy. Rereading the nature of image in Plato means, in my view, understanding the original nature of complexity. Consequently, a (regional) geography conceived as chorography possesses already in its name, derived from chora-image, a key conceptual tool to face today's major epistemological challenge, that is understanding the world in terms of complexity. The concept of nomos is regarded here as a fil rouge between all the concepts taken into consideration: region, image, ethics, happiness. All these concepts - I argue - are associated with one another inasmuch as they shape, and share with the concept of nomos, an idea of complexity, based on the tension between striation and mobility, which makes them tools for narrating and inchoatively rethinking, reimagining, today's world and also our identities.
- Subjects
SCHMITT, Carl, 1888-1985; DELEUZE, Gilles, 1925-1995; IMAGE analysis; IMAGINARY histories; CULTURAL geography; GEOGRAPHY; HAPPINESS
- Publication
ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, 2020, Vol 19, Issue 1, p303
- ISSN
1492-9732
- Publication type
Article