Henri Lefebvre

[Marenqo]

try heidegger, Marx, but also Foucault to get a more complete Lefebvre, Good video, good to see he is being read

[aftonwilky]

Mind-blowing reading list:

Levinas Totality and Infinity (I'm reading this right now--well, was till this) This applies most directly to your interest in Nations, borders, and violence.

Derrida Limited Inc

de Certeau Practice of Everyday Life

Lefebvre Production of Space (but you guys knew that one already)

[Daionisio]

@aftonwilky This is amazing, thanks so much for sharing that. I'm just putting together a list of "what remains to be read" over the summer for my Masters thesis (to be completed by August) that I didn't quite get to yet, so this is very helpful. I've definitely enjoyed de Certeau before, and Derrida has been recommended to me by my colleagues as well. Levinas sounds fascinating! Good luck to you :)

[aftonwilky]

@Daionisio oh good! glad to help--I love reading lists, myself.

Best of luck with your thesis! That's great you have till August. My classmates had to finish theirs this past month. Whew! Glad it's not me yet.

[aftonwilky]

I'm reading Levinas's Totality and Infinity this week which so far is taking our relationship with the "other" and saying that everything is based on our respons-ibility to respond to the "other." This made me think of Lefebvre. Abstract space/cartesian space seems to me to be the possibility for space to not be physical. Once physicality can be secondary we open possibilities in physical space. Lefebvre is asking for reorientation, to me that's what Levinas is doing in a mind-blowing way.

[miroma]

You need to read Lefebvre from a thoroughly Marxist perspective. Abstract or absolute space is the conceived space produced by states, global capitalism, and those who hold power in society, and not only implies violence, but requires violence to exist. Remember, Lefebvre is an international socialist. Also, what you were talking about later regarding measuring and abstraction is basically a form of commodity fetishism.

Maybe I will read this again as well.