Architecture and the Distribution of the Sensible

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  • Nika Grabar University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Architecture, Ljubljana

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3986/fv.42.2.12

Keywords:

architecture, art, aesthetics, politics, space, form, regimes of art, world, fiction, Adorno, Rancière

Abstract

Following Theodor W. Adorno’s reading of architecture as a purposeful art, the article explores how the social dimension is inscribed into the purposes ascribed to architecture by establishing a relation between what Adorno calls a sense of architectural space and the distribution of the sensible as defined by Jacques Rancière. Considering Rancière’s understanding of the political dimension of different “regimes of art”, the article attempts to show how similar observations can be made regarding architecture. What implications do these regimes of architecture have for the constitution of a common world, given architecture’s vast spatio-temporal presence?

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2021-12-31 — Updated on 2022-04-06

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Grabar, N. (2022). Architecture and the Distribution of the Sensible. Filozofski Vestnik, 42(2). https://doi.org/10.3986/fv.42.2.12 (Original work published December 31, 2021)

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Vol. 42 No. 2 (2021): The Concept of World in Contemporary Philosophy

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The Concept of World in Contemporary Philosophy

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