Query for John K: does (if so how) international regionalism relate
to critical regionalism in architecture, which interests me but which
I don't know much about? The one may include the other, or does the
choice of qualifier matter? And I suppose there is no regionalism as
such, but it's
something that it's still a very powerful attachment to any more
assimilable qualifier that's going.
I was reading yesterday some essays in a recent issue (83) of Sub-
Stance on the ecology of knowledge in Michel Serres. I like his
topology which allows a global nomadism to percolate through what he
retains as a "sedentary localism". Presumably space, like time, turns
back on itself, obstructs or sidelines its own areas, so that it's
not as if a locality can be merely surpassed or subsumed by some
more dynamic space, when the locality may be what enables a more
complex "flow" and seepage of space.
On a more concrete level, I heard an impromptu reading by Barry
McSweeney of most of "Pearl" in the West Country last week. He was
staying around because the place (Nether Stowey) has a personal
significance for him and he had never been back; but from there he
was reading us through another "spot" which is the setting of Pearl,
all part of an intonation as well as a setting. Interesting how such
"fixities" of association are themselves often randomly distributed
and capable of some sort of interassociation which doesn't always get
serviced by an intermediary like internationalism etc. Or it may be
such a global elsewhere is where the horizons of local places
themselves reach to, but we can't always assume (without parodying
the implied relation) that we do, we who are of too many
margins to be able to give place to horizons.
Peter
Peter Larkin
Philosophy & Literature Librarian
University of Warwick Library
Coventry CV4 7AL UK
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