The Biblical story of the Art (a floating, zoo-like device, constructed to survive climate turmoil and mass extinction) can be regarded as an archetypal image (in the terminology of Gaston Bachelard), capturing structural components of the human-animal relationship. Building on the contributions by Larson and Barr, Keulartz, Bovenkerk and Verweij, and Ramp and Bekoff, I will argue that, in the ...

ing space There is something unsettling about space. Whether it is existential or historical, our spatiality seems to generate a persistent sense of unknowing that animates repetitive projects of abstraction. Space has to be marked, framed, mapped, subject to boundaries. In that sense, as Perec writes in his extraordinary catalogue of forms of spatiality, space is a perpetual doubt (1997 [1974]...

Si bien toda la filosofía de imaginación bachelardiana está afectada por un materialismo simbólico y este puede ejercer las funciones mediación o acompañamiento en el viaje ensoñación, también es cierto que finalidad del arte –en caso, poesía– relámpago, búsqueda verdad, aprehensión profunda ser cosas; experiencia esta difícilmente se dar si mediamos, entre cosa hombre, conceptos categorías que...

As argued, among others, by Gaston Bachelard in The Poetics of Space (1958), a house which has been inhabited over period time becomes composite its physical structure and the mental space created residents’ thoughts, dreams memories. This article analyses two contemporary novels houses as tangible manifestations temporally remote experience provide link to Vic-torian past. Lauren Willig’s That...

Introduction Although the domestic has been critically observed in relation to British artists in the 1990s, it has not been considered cross-culturally in terms of Irish artists. Considering many female Irish artists were coming of age in the 1990s, as part of a newly enlightened media-aware generation, conscious of feminist ideas and changing attitudes towards women both in Ireland and intern...

En s’intéressant à la notion de référence, il s’agit d’introduire des considérations linguistiques dans le travail modélisation du processus conception architecturale. La architecturale est une activité spécifique notamment parce qu’elle a affaire un réel qui n’est pas déjà donné comme l’a montré Philippe Boudon. De ce point vue entretient rapport au peut être considéré inverse celui science. M...