The flourish of interest in accessible theorizations of space seems to have
struck a chord with many, which is nice.
My _Poststructuralist Geographies: The Diabolical Art of Spatial Science_
will be published by Edinburgh Unversity Press in April. I think its great,
but then again, I would. Perhaps those who I schizoanalyse will not be so
cheerful...
Now, in writing this book something struck me that had never really struck
me before. Radical spatial science is practised in almost every area of
academic endeavour. I used to find great inspiration in continental
philosophers, such as Deleuze, Derrida, and Lyotard, or more recently
Bachelard and Badiou. I used to feel at home in my little burrow of Gothic
materialism. But then I decided on a breath of fresh air and started
reading work on architecture, bodies, quantum mechanics, topology, cinema,
complexity, literary theory, painting, and just about anything else I
happened upon. And what struck me was this: the key motifs of critical
human geography are at play everywhere: relationality, differentiation,
undecidability, constructivism, folding, perversion, deconstruction,
schizoanalysis, viroid life, metamorphosy, etc. This is indeed a beautiful
milieu in which to become a geographer. There are so may materials to
become swept up by.
I can already feel my neck on the block, which is nice.
As for representation, forget it. There are no Second Comings (even in
1999), just transformations; redistributions of force and affect.
Marcus d.
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