Monday, February 16, 2009

ohh Bachelard...

 " polarity of cellar and attic, the marks of which, are so deep, in a way, they open up two very different perspectives for a phenomenology of the imagination." 

the cellar and attic are in fact, two very different spaces in which beings interact within the space differently. Bachelard speaks about how the action of descending and ascending effect the way people view a space or interact within the space. Ascending + descending are sometimes viewed in a religious manner as descending into hell and ascending into heaven, which for most people make a basement seem as a dark and gloomy space. After discussing it with the class in detail, you really do see how the cellar and attic are spaces of polarity and how each imagination views and interacts with the space differently. 

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