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The Journey and Territorial Intimacy
Andrea Mubi Brighenti
“The West is afflicted by a sedentary metaphysics,” writes Tim Cresswell in his book On the Move (2006). This sedentariness seems paradoxical when considered in light of the increase in our possibilities for movement. Even more paradoxical is the fact that this hypermobility has led to the extinction of travel in its modern form. Modern travel, in fact, was dialectically related to the territory, a delineated space to be overcome. By focusing on the spatial imagination of travel and territory, the conference will attempt to analyze the intertwining between dominant and paradigmatic conceptions of space, on one hand, and, on the other, a dense set of practical forms—intimate and affective—of spatiality that somehow slip through, mix in as impurities, and ultimately resist within it.
Andrea Mubi Brighenti is an associate professor of Social Theory and space and culture at the Department of Sociology at the University of Trento. In 2011, he was a research fellow at the Department of Economic and Social Sciences at ParisTech University. His research focuses on the relationship between social territories, public space, cities, walls, regimes of mobility, and visibility. Among his works are Visibility in Social Theory and Social Research (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) and Territori migranti. Spazio e controllo della mobilità globale (Ombre Corte, 2009). He founded and curates the independent online magazine lo Squaderno.
