![]() ![]() The book was published as part of the Place, Memory, Affect series, edited by Neil Campbell and Christine Berberich. This article is a review essay which discusses the inter-disciplinary collection of essays edited by Marijn Nieuwenhuis and David Crouch, titled The Question of Space: Interrogating the Spatial Turn between Disciplines (London: Rowman & Littlefield 2017). Far is the possibility of fixing a last instance or a fundamental scale, the possibility of a whole in which we could univocally place the particulars, or the chance of finding the last constituents of being (the atoms: physical, logical, metaphysical, social, etc.). There is also a multiplicity of space scales (elemental particles, molecules, living organisms, living collectives, all living-species), different modes (continuous, discontinuous, with borders, infinite, homogeneous, non-trivially connected), different subjective relationships to it (earth as our space -be it in terms of Husserl or of Galilei-, the cultural world-worlds, my city, my house, my body). There are several clocks and several lives. There is no “fundamental” difference between life-time and clock-time. There is a multiplicity of time scales (cosmic, planetary, human, cultural, personal) and velocities (the human body, our cars and trains, information), but also of subjective appropriations (what is urgent, what should come first, how much time do we have left). ![]() And yet, there is no measure anymore to determine what is actuality or the present, what is contemporary. Philosophy only speaks when there is a limit at stake: a beginning, an end, a border, a frontier. A time in which the end has become the void center around which we revolve. ![]() Ours is, certainly the time of the end of times. Every time we perceive the scent of an end, we are summoned to position ourselves, to express what has been, what is our condition and what is to come. ![]()
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