{"id":2170,"date":"2024-11-13T12:14:30","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T11:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pensarecomeunamontagna.gamec.it\/?p=2170"},"modified":"2025-07-15T16:28:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T14:28:34","slug":"reclaiming-opacity-towards-errant-exaptive-and-monstrous-architectural-ecologies-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pensarecomeunamontagna.gamec.it\/en\/reclaiming-opacity-towards-errant-exaptive-and-monstrous-architectural-ecologies-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Reclaiming Opacity: Towards Errant, Exaptive and Monstrous Architectural Ecologies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"wp-block-evidenzio-columns has-background\" style=\"background-color:#f5f2e8\"><div class=\"container-fluid py-3 py-lg-4\"><div class=\"row justify-content-center\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-evidenzio-column col-12 col-md-12 col-lg-7\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In his <em>Poetics of Relation<\/em>, \u00c9douard Glissant laments the enforced transparency of a French language \u201cgiven in advance\u201d and assumed to be fixed and absolute, and argues instead for dynamic and situated reconfigurations and diversions that, in francophone regions like the Antilles or R\u00e9union, might \u201cdestabiliz[e] \u2018standard\u2019 French\u201d and \u201cprovide the means for [a] place and its people to relate to the world as one among equivalent entities.\u201d Hence, what is at stake is both the \u201crenunciation of an arrogant, monolingual separateness\u201d (the ethnocentric privileging of an original language and set of uses) and the willingness \u201cto enter into the penetrable opacity of a world in which one exists, or agrees to exist, with and among others.\u201d As Glissant writes elsewhere, one should \u201cspeak with the knowledge that there are other languages in the world.\u201d Likewise, Timothy Morton describes opacity \u201cnot a[s] total nothing, but [\u2026] as a <em>meaningfulness not for him<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pensarecomeunamontagna.gamec.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/GAMeC_Thinking-Like-a-Mountain_Supplement_Simone-Ferracina.pdf\">Download the complete pdf<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">The project<em>\u00a0Massi Erratici\u00a0<\/em>is supported by Architetture Sostenibili per i luoghi della cultura, promoted by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nome Cognome Qualifica \/ Area di lavoro<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-supplement"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - 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