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

该项目专注于被遗弃、被忽视和经常被遗忘的城市空间现象，在法语中被描述为“terrainvgues”，这个术语可以翻译为休耕地、空地或荒地。但“地形模糊”的现象和概念都难以界定；事实上，尽管这两者都具有话题性，但它们在某种程度上仍未被探索。在艺术领域，“地形模糊”目前很流行。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虚、废弃和废弃的城市空间；然而，他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，它来自废墟的浪漫主义美学，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。基于对其特定拓扑结构和同源概念的系统考虑，如异托邦（福柯）、非地点（奥格鲁）或死区（多隆），将探索现代法国文学和电影中“地形模糊”的美学、诗学和概念演变。课程将特别强调超现实主义诗人和摄影师创造的巴黎神话，以及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，该研究将考虑“地形模糊”在多大程度上形成了一种保留，以保留在城市空间日益郊区化和同质化的过程中失去其地位的经验，以及这些空间如何提供乌托邦设置或以其他方式创造性地占用。“模糊地形”在文学和电影中的表现研究提供了三个视角，可以从美学和诗意的角度来阐释城市荒地的处理：(1)“模糊地形”作为一个棱镜空间或时间点，城市发展的线条在其中集中和折射，通过它可以阅读城市空间的现状及其历史性和社会性；(2)“模糊的地形”作为一种体验的场所，它代表了在城市秩序的边缘和间隙中表现出来的非凡，激发了陌生和越界的阈限体验；(3)“地形模糊”作为一种潜在的空间，由于其缺乏目的和不确定的意义，可以为想象的投射，创造性的行动或乌托邦的愿景而被回收。

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.