Allegorical Topoi - Amorphous Places
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Alegory. Landscape. Walter Benjamin.Abstract
This proposal examines the intersection between place, non-place, and allegory as structuring categories in the symbolic and historical constitution of contemporary urban spaces. Drawing on Benjaminian reflections, the commodity emerges as the preeminent allegory of modernity, devoid of ontological substance yet endowed with a semantic plasticity capable of reconfiguring the relations between space, time, and society. In this context, the city emerges as a dialectical stage where the sacred and the profane intertwine in a dynamic that dissolves historical memory and reveals tensions between territorialization and abstraction. Conceived as an allegorical palimpsest, the city houses ruins and fragments of obliterated histories that resist the homogenization [im]posed by capitalist logic. From this perspective, fissures persist, allowing for the reinscription of the symbolic and positioning the city as a contested space between the forces of forgetting and the potential for a critical reappropriation of memory.
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