“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.
