Spaces Without Time (2009) Video Lecture from Moderna Galerija Archive

Moderna Galerija from Ljubljana, Slovenia, has launched a new blog, and here is a video talk "Spaces without Time (from Communist Monuments to Shopping Malls)", from the Radical Education Conference, held 28-29 November in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

The text of the lecture, as well as references for further readings, are below the video.





Jasna Koteska: Spaces without Time (From Communist Monuments to Shopping Malls) from moderna galerija on Vimeo.



Spaces Without Time
Jasna Koteska, Macedonia







[i] To be precise, Arendt’s actual quote is: ‘the public life today is in fact private’, as quoted in: Frederic Jameson, Spatial Systems in North by Northwest, in: Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Lacan: But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock, edited by Slavoj Zizek, Verso, London, 1993, p. 52.  My inaccurate quoting  of Arendt here, in which life is to be equalized with space, is deliberate. It does not come from the perverse assumption that life should simply be seen as a geometric phenomenon that resides in space, but quite the opposite, as evidence of the supremacy of space over time that according to Lefebvre, is deeply rooted in modernity. And precisely on account of this assumption, space has come to serve as one of few consistent (though phantasmatic) positive supports of our very being, while with the same operation, time has been expelled as a ‘guarantee’ of the same being.
[ii] Sigmund Freud, Civilization and its Discontents, The Standard Edition, With a Biographical Introduction by Peter Gay, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. New York, 17-19.
[iii] Rolf Potts, ‘Slumming the Golden Archives’ in: The Art of Independent Travel (weekly column on Yahoo News), 5 June 2006. http://news.yahoo.com/s/rolf_potts/20060605/rolf_potts/rolf_potts5166
[iv] See also Renata Salecl, (Per)versions of Love and Hate, Verso, London, New York, 1998, 94-96.
[v]Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space, translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith, 1991, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, p. 96.
[vi] Ibid, 95.
[vii] H. L. Borges, Borges Oral, Emecé Editores, S.A. – Editorial Belgrano, Buenos Aires, 1979. Here I used the Serbian translation of the book: H. L. Borhes, Usmeni Borhes, Izdavačko preduzeće Rad, Beograd, 1990, p. 63.
[viii] Quoted in: Susan Buck-Morss, Dreamworld and Catastrophe, The MIT Press, 2002, p. 55.
[ix] Susan Buck-Morss, Dreamworld and Catastrophe, The MIT Press, 2002, p. 66.
[xi] Igor Mandić, Policajci duha, Globus, Zagreb, 1979, p. 82.
[xii] Quoted in: Susan Buck-Morss, Dreamworld and Catastrophe, The MIT Press, 2002, p. 44.
[xiii] Quoted in: Igor Shafarevich: The Socialist Phenomenon (1980), translated by William Tjasma, foreword by Aleksandar I. Solzhenitsyn, Harper & Row, New York. Here I quote from the Serbian translation from 1997, p. 275.
[xiv] Slavoj Žižek, The Universal Exception, Continuum, London, 2006, p. 268.
[xvii] Susan Buck-Morss, Dreamworld and Catastrophe, The MIT Press, 2002, p. 202.
[xix] Renata Salecl, (Per)versions of Love and Hate, Verso, London, New York, 1998, 94-95.
[xx] Frederic Jameson, Spatial Systems in North by Northwest in: Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Lacan: But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock, edited by Slavoj Zizek, Verso, London, 1993, 69-72.

 

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