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“Culture or the Borders of Private Space Towards

IDENTITY.”

Culture is born of the meeting of two elements and neither of them contain But it is only with the help of a code that we can have access to the
it ; “the subjective soul and the creations of the objective Spirit” consumer, and aerial views accustom us to a global view of things: these
daily images are those of a “global” World that presents itself as having
The individual cannot exist alone ... no borders, to the extent of abolishing traditional places.
It is through the relationship of the individual to others that he agrees
to exist in a world definable as such. In this case the idea of individual But the ideal of a world without borders has nothing to do with borders,
freedom has no meaning. which call us to discover and to leave, as well as being a call to adventure
and to the future. The respect of these borders is a pledge to peace, the idea
Indeed, the Social Sense is made up of the relationships through which that they can be crossed in both directions is a reflection of the relationship
all IDENTITY is built. between one another, between the living and the dead.
The individual is always to be made and never ceases to project himself
into the future, his frontier being the horizon. Thus the dissolution of the person in the image of the other leads to confuse
Like the scientific mind, the mind knows that the truth is always to be won, knowledge of and recognition of the image: we badly need “the strength
the idea of progress is only a simple acknowledgement of the shortcomings of the other” who is truly “the other” to build and develop our IDENTITY; to
of the present and of the frontiers to be crossed in order to be able to seek identify the borders of the other to identify our own!
solutions, and then hope is to get them to move.
Be careful, defining in the same terms individuals who have something
People in “exodus” can only recall their roots, their traditions and their “in common” is to create an “illusory identity”; the notion of diversity takes
Culture. We have a lot to learn from these diverse Cultures, as long as we on a meaning in each individual: “it will be fitting when each individual
manage to listen and understand. In fact, we need to rediscover the sense will be able to be defined as an original and unique synthesis of the
of time and history to identify the new frontiers that we perceive on the Cultures of the World.”
horizon so as to fight against the compartmentalisation that is developing
under the cover of globalisation. “Because the community is only illusory,”
Science invites us to look at the boundaries of others between matter and life “Because where we could have built on ecological and landscape architecture,
that draw the scientific horizon of the century that is now beginning; this new it is still concrete, steel and glass despite the energy cost and collateral
frontier is also the horizon of humanity; the worldwide educational revolution damage, which demonstrates submission to the economy.”
will have to involve the whole human race in this new adventure. “The notion
of Culture takes on a meaning in each individual” and each individual can be Because “large projects” inevitably favour confinement and subservience.
defined as an original and unique synthesis of the World’s subtle Cultures. Extracts from: La Tragédie de la Culture by G. Simmel; The illusory Community of M. Augé; Urban Disasters by T. Paquot

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