Heterotopias, place that opens behind the surface, holds an over-there-ness, represent a “reservoir of imagination” (MF). Within the fold. A garden as a microcosmic world build out of the juxtaposition or arrangement of elements. Place with temporal shifts and/or fragments. A cruise ship. An airport.
L’imaginaire de mon lieu est relié à la réalité imaginable des lieux du monde, et tout inversement. L’archipel est cette réalité source, non pas unique, d’où sont sécrétés ces imaginaires : le schème de l’appartenance et de la relation, en même temps.
Glissant, Édouard, Philosophie de la Relation, Paris, Gallimard, 2009.
“the imaginary of my place is related to the imaginable reality in all places …”
Releted(?) : heterotopias–“In Of Other Spaces Foucault coined the term “heterotopias” to signify “all the other real sites that can be found within the culture” which “are simultaneously represented, contested, and inverted.” For Foucault, heterotopic spaces were first of all spaces of crisis, or transformative spaces …”
Nicholas Britell, Song of Hal: Conclusio in C Minor, The King, 2019.
Nicholas Britell, Marche – Agincourt, The King, 2019.
“The order that matters most is not spatial but temporal […] time itself as patterns, recurrences, the rhythmic passage of days, […] lunar cycles and the tides, birth and death” (RS)
“Becoming American would remain an incomplete project” (HH); especially with a preference for Congo peas.
“Ecology without class struggle is gardening” — Chico Mendes, via Marcela Cantuária’s The South American Dream at PAMM.
Gardens are nodes “where pleasure and beauty and hours with no quantifiable practical result” may coalesce, but those aspects may align and “fit into the life of someone, perhaps of anyone, who also cared about justice and truth and human rights and how to change the world.” (RS)
Mendes was assassinated in 1988. He might have added nuance to this quote, that seems too easily quotable.
“[summarized] thoughts of Marx: by mixing our labor with the earth, we change the external world and thereby change our own nature. That’s what drama is; that’s what geography is: making history, making worlds.”
RWG
Don’t Be Voyeur with Me – by Michael Giacchino | The Batman, 2022.
