Article 02, paisea 014. The extended representation of the landscape | Valerio Morabito
The word “representation” is in itself rather vague, and when joined with the word landscape, this lack of definition is doubled.
In the story “Dall’opaco”, the important 20th century Italian writer Italo Calvino defines space in this way, in stark contrast to the Cartesian idea commonly held of it: “if I had been asked then how many dimensions there were to space, if someone had asked that self of mine that still lacks knowledge of those things that are learnt to create a code of shared conventions, the first of which is the conception that each of us is crossed by three infinite dimensions, by one that enters through our chest and comes out through our back, by another that crosses us from one shoulder to another, and by a third that drills through our skull and comes out fo our feet, an idea that one accepts after many doubts and refusals, only to then act as if one had always known it, if I had to base my answer on waht I had really learnt looking around me, on the three dimensions which, when stuck there in the middle of it all, really mutate into six, in front behind above below to the right and the left, …
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