Mäander - Softcover

Demuth, Volker

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3751830073 ISBN 13: 9783751830072

Publisher: Matthes & Seitz Verlag, 2023

Synopsis

Since Aristotle's metaphysics of the undistracted line has been granted a higher value position over the curved one, it has been part of the recurring defamation of the meander to brand the figures of deviation as supple, adaptive and opportunistic, but also - in their emblem, the snake - as insidious, chaotic and evil. In contrast, the straight is considered an epitome of historical reason, as an overpowering form of order, in which the world prone to disparate converges and can be synthesized into the totality. But what if the rationalist formalism of the Straight in truth proves to be grandiose irrational and dysfunctional for planetary life? When the transformation of entwined formations of relationality into efficient landscapes with stringent planning processes reveals itself as a prerequisite for today's disasters? Could Volker Demuth wonders in his essay oscillating between analytics and history, reflection and narration, with which meander could not offer us insights into a radically different cultural and political ecology, into a grammar in which subjects and objects are not hierarchized? Not a point at the top of an imaginary pyramid, but rather a back and forth swinging network of relationships in a fluid space.

Edition details

• Publisher: Matthes & Seitz Verlag
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 3751830073
• ISBN 13: 9783751830072
• Binding: Paperback