Terrain vague: Aesthetics and poetics of urban interspaces in French modernity

该项目侧重于被遗弃、被忽视和经常被遗忘的城市空间现象，在法语中被称为“terrains vagues”，这一术语可翻译为休耕地、空地或荒地。但是，“模糊地带”的现象和概念都很难界定;事实上，尽管它们是时事性的，但两者都还没有得到探讨。在艺术中，“模糊的地形”是目前流行的。事实上，最近关于空间理论和实践的辩论和文献经常提到空荡荡的、废弃的和不受欢迎的城市空间;然而，它们很少得到更深入的考虑。不太为人所知的是这个概念的历史渊源，从废墟的浪漫美学中成长起来，以及它在两个世纪的文学使用中发展起来的特殊语义潜力，这构成了它持久魅力的基础。 基于其特定的拓扑结构和同源概念，如异托邦（福柯），非地方（Augé）或死区（多隆）的系统考虑，美学，诗学和概念演变的“地形模糊”在现代法国文学和电影将被探索。将特别强调由超现实主义诗人和摄影师创造的巴黎神话，对困扰当代城市写作的概念性城市探索，以及法国电影中城市荒地的表现。从人类学的角度来看，这项研究将考虑在何种程度上“地形模糊”形成了一种保留的经验，失去了他们的位置，在日益郊区化和城市空间的同质化过程中，以及这些空间如何可以提供乌托邦式的设置或以其他方式创造性地占用。 通过对文学和影视作品中“地形的模糊”表现的研究，可以从三个角度来阐释城市废弃地的美学和诗意处理：（1）“地形的模糊”是一个棱柱形空间或时空地形，城市发展的线条在其中集中和交错，通过它可以解读城市空间的历史性和社会性的现状;（2）“模糊地带”是一个体验的地方，它代表了在城市秩序的边缘和空隙中表现出来的非凡，引发了陌生和越界的阈体验;（3）“模糊地带”是一个潜在的空间，由于它缺乏目的和不确定的意义，可以被想象的投射、创造性的行动或乌托邦的愿景所利用。

The project focuses on the phenomenon of abandoned, neglected, and often forgotten urban spaces, described in French as "terrains vagues", a term which could be translated as fallow land, vacant land or waste land. But both the phenomenon and the concept of the "terrain vague" are hard to define; in fact, both remain somewhat unexplored, despite their topicality. In the arts the "terrain vague" is currently in vogue. Indeed, recent debates and literature on the theory and practice of space often mention the empty, disused and derelict urban spaces; however, they seldom receive deeper consideration. Not so well known are the historical antecedents of the concept, growing from the romantic aesthetics of ruins, and its particular semantic potential, developed in two centuries of literary use, which forms the basis of its enduring fascination. Based on a systematic consideration of its specific topology and of cognate concepts such as heterotopia (Foucault), non-place (Augé) or dead zone (Doron), the aesthetics, poetics, and conceptual evolution of the "terrain vague" in modern French literature and cinema will be explored. Special emphasis will be placed on the mythology of Paris, as created by surrealist poets and photographers, on conceptual urban explorations which haunt contemporary writing on the city, and on the representation of urban waste lands in French cinema. From an anthropological point of view, the study will consider the extent to which the "terrain vague" forms a sort of reservation for experiences which have lost their place in the course of increasing suburbanization and homogenization of urban space, and how such spaces can provide utopian settings or be otherwise creatively appropriated. The study of the representation of "terrains vagues" in literature and film provides three perspectives from which the handling of urban waste land, aesthetically and poetically, can be elucidated: (1) the "terrain vague" as a prismatic space or chronotopos, in which lines of urban development concentrate and refract and through which one can read the current condition of urban space in relation to its historicity and sociality; (2) the "terrain vague" as a place of experience that, representing the extraordinary that manifests at the margins and in the gaps between urban order, provokes liminal experiences of strangeness and transgression; (3) the "terrain vague" as a space of potentiality that, due to its lack of purpose and indeterminate meaning, can be reclaimed for imaginative projection, creative action or utopian visions.