The choretic work of history
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Augustin Berque
Abstract
The choretic work of history is the way the ecumene, i.e., the relation of humankind with the Earth, develops along time. It amounts to the development of a milieu, i.e., an eco-techno-symbolic chora around the topos of our animal body. This milieu is the second “half” of human existence (the first “half” being the animal body). The dynamic relationship of these two “halves” works in the same way as a predication, in which the subject amounts to nature, and the predicate to the world which this subject is taken as. This process is called choresy. It is already at work in the biosphere, in which it amounts to evolution, but it reaches a new ontological stage when the development of specifically human technical and symbolic systems gives rise to history.
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- Introduction: Signification and space
- Towards an anthropological theory of space and place
- Spatial reification, or, collectively embodied amnesia, aphasia, and apraxia
- Spatial representation, activity, and meaning: Children's images of the contemporary city
- The performance of secrecy: Domesticity and privacy in public spaces
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- The semiotics of the Vitruvian city
- Space complexity and architectural conception: Revisiting Alberti's treatise
- Meaning of space and architecture of place
- Ship as a space locus, architecture as a space fabrica
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- The semiotic actor: From signs to socially constructed meaning
- Information systems actability: Tracing the theoretical roots
- Norms-based simulation for personalized service provision
- Universities as producers of evolutionarily stable signs of excellence for academic labor markets?
