PT Journal
AU Schoonderbeek, M
TI The Border as Threshold Space of Simultaneities
SO archimaera
PY 2013
VL grenzwertig
IS 005
DE Berlin Wall; Charles Jencks; Francis Fukuyama; Giorgio Agamben; Michel Foucault; Minoru Yamasaki; beginning; boundary; cultural practice; discipline; ending; frontier; limit; security; sovereignty; spatial analysis; spatial order; state of exception; threshold
AB The contribution spatial analysis should nowadays attempt to make to an understanding of the effects of power on space is precisely located in incorporating this understanding of the border. Without such a model, one will only remain to speculate about the properties of the border. It will, in other words, remain discourse only, rather then discursive production operating towards understanding. It is therefore crucial that the workings of power, and its spatial implementations and implications, are studied in precise detail. In this respect, the objectives for the field of spatial analysis, as described by Foucault, have to consider mechanisms of power in order to identify what is specific about them at a given moment. Borders are moments of demarcation not only in order to allow separation and differentiation. They also allow a space of encounter to emerge as well.
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