Dancing In Thirdspace

Envisioning Thirdspace: Spatiality and Marginality in Carlo ...

Of human life as a fundamental existential dimension which interweaves with the traditional historical-social modes of epistemological interpretation. Focusing on the city of Los Angeles as a case study, the political geographer Edward Soja (1940- ) draws upon the simplistic traditional dualism of historicality and sociality and elaborates a new radical postmodern way of thinking about real-and-imagined transcends the dialectics of conceived/lived and center/periphery, ultimately allowing for “a radically different way of looking at, interpreting, and acting to change the embracing spatiality of human life” (Soja, 1996: 29). Henri Lefebvre, whose conception of representational space has had a diverse interpretation by different scholars, had already started to question the rigidity and effectiveness of a categorical conceptual dualism. In this regard, while “travel[ling] through Lefebvre’s biography as a geographical expedition” (Soja, 1996: 29), Soja notices: Accordingly, Soja’s concept of thirdspace combines spatiality, historicality and sociality.It is "an-other" way (politically) to understand and possibly change the spatiality of human life through the critical awareness generated by a re-balanced/restructured "" cumulative "trialectics that is radically open to otherness additional , and a further expansion of space knowledge "(Soja, 1996: 61). Soja innovative perspective of" thirding-as-othering "is opening a new real-imaginary) embodied by the French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss as that should have been posting right from a phenomenon in order to make an objective, scientific examination. Through the character of Giovanni, a teenage cub reporter who used to work incognito for a local newspaper at the time of the events and who is narrating the story in retrospective, Mazzacurati explores the role of the director himself, proving the relativity of an objectively proper distance between the original intuition and its reproduction by the artist. The movie is set in a small town in the north-east region of the Veneto, where time stands still. In the main street in front of the only coffee shop in town, old men sit outside, chatting and playing cards; women stand behind the windows waiting for their husbands and their children to come back for lunch. Hassan and Mara are the only two outsiders at whom the attention of the village is directed.