A linha do horizonte. Foto e topos:coincidência de luzes

Abstract

The space is seen today as one of the main forces for the political mobilization of civilizations. Its perception and fixation was most dependent upon the images and the ways of seeing which both captured and expanded it infinitely. The invention of photography brought the promisse of its delimitation but it also produced its refraction and “deisterritorializatio”. Following Michel Foucault’s, Edward T. Hall’s and Vilém Flusser’s conceptions and theories of space and experience, we will try to articulate the ways photographic technology had contributed to the conventions and perspectives of a subjective and apolitical space which opened the way to the reassurance of weightless and non-concrete virtual spaces that seem to characterize XXI century experience.