Pires, Helena

(Re)Making the Interval: A Cidade dos Objectos [The City of Objects] (Augusto Alves da Silva) - 2011.


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We propose a semiotic exercise based on an ontological and epistemological conception of space that to some extent resembles the notion of traversed space of Michel de Certeau. To this author, the pedestrian enunciations, the practices of space that are unrelated to universalizing grammar, constitute a quite fundamental issue. The purpose of this essay is to focus the attention on objects that stand in semiotic journeys. It is understood that these same routes are composed of heterogeneous networks of relationships, built by human and nonhuman actors. In order to inquire about the nature of such relationships, we consider the contributions of Latour, Donna Haraway and Deleuze and Guattari, among others. Our aim is to analyse the coexistence of different material bodies in space, different players, but also the particular ways of how objects overflow with unusual senses and become creative elements that indefinitely produce space at the same time they are produced by it and share their unspeakable nature.