Re: XForms and "Extension": Reading Architecturally

Dear public-xformsusers,

The previous post on "XForms and 'Extension': Reading Architecturally" may
be worked to my reading on "Text and Architecture" posted in this list
March 5th

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xformsusers/2020Mar/0008.html


Regard,
Guntur Wiseno Putra

Pada Rabu, 01 April 2020, Guntur Wiseno Putra <gsenopu@gmail.com> menulis:

> 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)).
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>
>
> Regard,
> Guntur Wiseno Putra
>