Episode 3: Space
What is wrong with Descartes’ picture of the world – Extension renders the world invisible - Phenomenology and the destruction of the modern world picture – Why is this book not called Being and Space? – Space as room and roomliness – The unavoidable character of spatial metaphors – Nearness, place and neighborhood – Art and space – The sacred, temple and templum – The near, clearing away and bringing things close – Churches, graves, radios, telephones – In Dasein, there is a collapsing of distance – Heidegger’s theory of social media – Against the metrical measurement of space – Freeing place and why architects love Heidegger – Fernando Pessoa and lessons in unlearning.
