Trialectics
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"'The imaginary'. This word becomes (or better: becomes again) magical. It fills the empty spaces of thought, much like the 'unconscious and culture'. ... After all, since two terms are not sufficient, it becomes necessary to introduce a third term.. The third term is the other, with all that this term implies (alterity, the relation between the present/absent other, alteration-alienation). | "'The imaginary'. This word becomes (or better: becomes again) magical. It fills the empty spaces of thought, much like the 'unconscious and culture'. ... After all, since two terms are not sufficient, it becomes necessary to introduce a third term.. The third term is the other, with all that this term implies (alterity, the relation between the present/absent other, alteration-alienation). | ||
| - | Reflexive thought and hence philosophy has for a long time accentuated dyads. Those of dry and humid, the large and the small. the finite and the infinite, as in Greek antiquity. Then those that constituted the western philosophical paradigm. subject-object, continuity –discontinuity, open - closed, etc. Finally, in the modern era there are the binary oppositions between signifier and signified, knowledge and non-knowledge, centre and periphery... [But] is there ever a relation only between two terms...? One always had Three. There is always the Other(Lefebvre in Soja, 1996)." | + | Reflexive thought and hence philosophy has for a long time accentuated dyads. Those of dry and humid, the large and the small. the finite and the infinite, as in Greek antiquity. Then those that constituted the western philosophical paradigm. subject-object, continuity –discontinuity, open - closed, etc. Finally, in the modern era there are the binary oppositions between signifier and signified, knowledge and non-knowledge, centre and periphery... [But] is there ever a relation only between two terms...? One always had Three. There is always the Other(Lefebvre in Soja, 1996)." This is the so called thirding-as-othering that takes an important role in the triplicety. |
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Trialectical thinking is difficult, for it challenges all conventional modes of thought and taken-for-granted epistemologies ([[Epistemology]]). It is disorderly, unruly, constantly evolving, unfixed, never presentable in permanent constructions. | Trialectical thinking is difficult, for it challenges all conventional modes of thought and taken-for-granted epistemologies ([[Epistemology]]). It is disorderly, unruly, constantly evolving, unfixed, never presentable in permanent constructions. | ||
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Revision as of 16:22, 23 October 2012
Trialectics is a concept invented by Lefebvre (dialectics of triplicety) and further developed and applied to space by Edward Soja(trialectics).
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Lefebvre
"'The imaginary'. This word becomes (or better: becomes again) magical. It fills the empty spaces of thought, much like the 'unconscious and culture'. ... After all, since two terms are not sufficient, it becomes necessary to introduce a third term.. The third term is the other, with all that this term implies (alterity, the relation between the present/absent other, alteration-alienation).
Reflexive thought and hence philosophy has for a long time accentuated dyads. Those of dry and humid, the large and the small. the finite and the infinite, as in Greek antiquity. Then those that constituted the western philosophical paradigm. subject-object, continuity –discontinuity, open - closed, etc. Finally, in the modern era there are the binary oppositions between signifier and signified, knowledge and non-knowledge, centre and periphery... [But] is there ever a relation only between two terms...? One always had Three. There is always the Other(Lefebvre in Soja, 1996)." This is the so called thirding-as-othering that takes an important role in the triplicety.
Soja
According to Soja "the third term never stands alone, totally separate from its precedents or given absolute precedence on its own." So to Soja this is the key point to Lefebvre dialectics of triplicety and of from there he wants to describe Thirdspace. Here the the Trialectial thinking is adopted to describe the concept thirdspace as trialectics of spatiality.
Trialectical thinking is difficult, for it challenges all conventional modes of thought and taken-for-granted epistemologies (Epistemology). It is disorderly, unruly, constantly evolving, unfixed, never presentable in permanent constructions.
References
Henri Lefebvre, La presence et l'absence, 1980:225 and 143 in Soja, E.W. (1996). The extraordinary voyages of Henri Lefebvre; The trialectics of spatiality. In Thirdspace: Journeys to los Angeles and other real-and-imagined place.[Electronic version] Blackwell, Oxford.
Soja, E.W. (1996). The extraordinary voyages of Henri Lefebvre; The trialectics of spatiality. In Thirdspace: Journeys to los Angeles and other real-and-imagined place.[Electronic version] Blackwell, Oxford.
Contributors
Edited by Huub van der Zwaluw HuubVanDerZwaluw 18:11, 23 October 2012 (CEST)
