POSTHUMAN IN A SECRET S/P(L)ACE
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In this article posthumanistic aspects of the problem of secret s/p(l)ace, i. e. both spaces and place were researched. Differentiation of a space and a place, a secret and a mystery was made. A manifold of a conception of secrecy (mysteriousness, veiling, ciphered, etc.) from a tendency to keep a secret of s/p(l)ace carefully to claim to demystify a place completely is investigated. Philosophy, philosophical anthropology especially, appears as geophilosophy, human geography in this case. Thus a conceptualizing human being is surveying in a friendship with a landscape, s/p(l)ace. The importance of natural elements (water, air, fire, etc.) for secret s/p(l)ace has been demonstrated. Of particular actuality to this study is the appeal to the current concept of the atmosphere, which is weakly perceptible, but is influential. The relationship between a secret s/p(l)ace and a secret self, such as a freak, Secret Santa, etc., was traced. A distinction is made between a secret s/p(l)ace and a non-place like moving place with a discourse, place of surveying. The importance of a secret s/p(l)ace for the formation of a post-body in a situation where the body as such is lost is shown. The importance of psychoanalytic and psychogeographic conceptualization of a secret s/p(l)ace is also demonstrated. They are adjoined by the consideration of space concerning boredom as stabilization of pleasure in the habitual and comfortable, good banality, a bliss from the side of pleasure. The significance of the secret s/p(l)ace is asserted in conditions when the city plays not only a conjunctive, connecting, but also a disjunctive, disconnecting role. A conclusion is made about a secret s/p(l)ace as a posthuman place of a place, a place-without-place with a secret of mystery. The study was carried out on the material of actual culture (literature, cinema, architecture, and design, etc.), as well as life practices. This corresponds to the Deleuzian statement about the intersection of concept, prospectus and affect. The study also involved speculative realism, speculative posthumanism, and other related conceptions.
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