Place-Space

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PLACE

TACITA DEAN AND JEREMY MILLAR

THAMES & HUDSON

ENTRANCE

PLACE- THE FIRST OF ALL THINGS (pages 11-26)

'The question what is place? presents many difficulties. An examination of all the relevant facts seems to lead to different conclusions. Moreover, we have inherited nothing from previous thinkers, whether in the way of a statement of difficulties or of a solution.'

Aristotle, Book IV, The Physics

Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979 film:

'...Old traps vanish, new ones take their place; the old safe places become impassable; and the route and either can be plain and easy, or impossibly confusing. That's how the zone is.it may even seem capricious. But in fact, at any moment it is exactly as we devise it, in our consciousness...everything that happens here depends on us, not the zone.'

'...we must always remember that while we might easily be lost in place, we would certainly be lost without it'

Alternatively, (place) might be used as a synonym for 'space' or 'location', 'site' or 'territory'

'A landscape is the land transformed, whether through the physical act of inhabitation or enclosure, clearance of cultivation, or through human perception'