SPACE AS STORYTELLER

Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project suggests that space can become a storyteller: if so, plenty of fleeting stories can be read in the space of modernity, where repetition and the unexpected cross-pollinate. In Spaceas Storyteller, Laura Chiesa explores several stor ies across a wide range of time that narrate spatial jumps, from Benjamin's tangential take on the cityscape, the experimentalism of Futurist theatricality, the multipleand potential atlases narrated by Italo Calvino and Georges Perec, and the posturban thought an d practi...[Read more]