Modalities of Place: On Polarisation and Exclusion in Concepts of Place and in Site-Specific Art
Popular Abstract in Swedish Avhandlingen tar upp polariserade plats-koncept (place/non-place, place/placelessnes, place/site etc. En modaliserande approach prövas, dvs nyanser och aspekter framhålls som alternativ till polariteter och dikotomier. Del 1 innefattar platsteori genom Edward Casey, Edward Relph, Kenneth Frampton, Perla Korosek-Serfaty och Henri Lefebvre. Här görs en kritisk läsning av In this thesis the notion of place is studied by way of investigating the “non-place” which is excluded or opposed, whenever a place is defined. “Non-place” is used here as a meta-concept, covering various recurring types of opposition to “place,” and it therefore represents a profoundly incoherent spect-rum of realities and concepts. Hence, a “non-place” may in this investigation appear as “lefto
