XForms and "Extension": Reading Architecturally

Dear public-xformsusers,



It may work for such an understanding concerning with XForms as it is about
"extension",  "the X" or "the extensible": I finded in my reading
"extension" was ever to be a paradigm on "space" supplanted by
"emplacement" --here we are in a reading on architecture:

There was a hirearchy, an opposition, an interconnection of places that
constituted medieval space, a space of localization. "This space of
localization opened up with Galileo in having constituted a space that was
infinite; and infinitely open... A thing's place was no longer anything but
a point in its motion, just as a thing's rest was nothing more than its
motion indefinitely slowed down. To put it differently, starting from
Galileo, from the seventeen century, extension supplanted localization.

In our day, emplacement is supplanting extension which itself replaced
localization. Emplacement is defined by the relations of proximity between
points or elements. In formal terms these can be described as series,
trees, lattices.

... (There is) the importance of problems of emplacement  in contemporary
engineering: the storage of information or of the partial results of a
calculation on the memory of a machine, the calculation of discrete
elements, with a random output (such as, quite simply, automobile or in
fact the tones on a relephone line), the identification of tagged or coded
elements in an ensemble that is either distributed haphazardly or sorted in
a univocal classification, or sorted according in a plurivocal
classificatoon, and so on.

The problem of place or emplacement is posed in terms of demography
(also)...

Furthermore there was an analysis of "the space outside" which went to an
interest to cetain emplacements "that have the cirious property of being
connnected to all (the???) other emplacenents, but in such a way that they
suspend, neutralize, or reverse the set of relations that are designated,
reflected, or represebted ("réflechis") by them... (as they) are of two
great types": utopias and heterotopias.



NOTE:

I red a machine-based copy of
Foucault, Michel, "Aesthetics, Method and Epistemology: Essential Works of
Foucault 1954-1984  Volume Two(edited by James Faubion), Penguin Books,
2000 Ch. "Different Spaces" pp. 175-86. This is the text of a lecture
presented to the Architectural Studies Circle 14 March 1967; it was first
published until 1984 ("Architecture, Mouvement, Continuité 5 (October
1984)).



Regard,
Guntur Wiseno Putra