«THE POWER OF PLACE» AS A SPATIAL AND CULTURAL DIMENSION OF IMAGINATION

Grigorieva M. A.

The study reveals the problem of the relationship between the universal (global) and the unique (local) through the cultural dimension of physical and imaginary spaces. As a result, based on the analysis of the works of Otto von Bollnow, depicting space as the perceptual basis of the relationship between man and the environment; the concept of “placelessness” of the modern inhabitant from Edward Relf and the construct of “groundlessness” proposed by Vilém Flusser; narratives of spatial behavior of modern man by Zygmunt Bauman; appeals to “unique existence” from Walter Benjamin and Jean-Luc Nancy, we can say that the value of “place” as a field of culture and a fact of habitability returns to the need to talk about it as the only condition for returning the previous conditions of existence.

Keywords:space as perceptual evolution, universal and unique, Human, digital and physical field, imagination, disappearance, safety, Benjamin, Flusser, Bauman