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From the Enclosed Individual to Spatial Notions of a “Beyond”: Spatial Imagery in the Work of Jules Romains

  • Dominique Bauer (author)
Chapter of: The Imagery of Interior Spaces(pp. 35–56)

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TitleFrom the Enclosed Individual to Spatial Notions of a “Beyond”
SubtitleSpatial Imagery in the Work of Jules Romains
ContributorDominique Bauer (author)
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/the-imagery-of-interior-spaces/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
CopyrightBauer, Dominique
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2019-03-29
Long abstractIn this essay, the spatial imagery in the work of Jules Romains is analyzed in relation to the central philosophical concept that underlies it, the unanime. The unanime is a collective being that suddenly emerges when, for example, people come together in theater halls, gather around a kiosk, or form a funeral procession. As a post-Second-Industrial-Revolution phenomenon, the unanime typically applies to the big city and the “actual realities” of modern life, to use the words of Romains’s travelling companion towards unanimism, Georges Chennevière, in the article “Le frisson nouveau,” which he published in Vox in July 1905. As a group entity, formally composed of movements of points, bundles and plains, the unanime incarnates a panoptic consciousness. As the spatial form of a simultaneity of points of view, it accomplishes the comprehensive perspective of the immediate, exhaustive presence of consciousness with all of reality. In that sense, the panoptic unanime opposes the deformed perspective of the monoscopic, subjectivist point of view. Immediacy implies a comprehensive simultaneity here, and, on this basis, moves towards the ideal of a total image, calling all possible views into an eternal present.
Page rangepp. 35–56
Print length22 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
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