Threshold as a Cultural Object,
written in response to Writing Objects and Non-Objects with Georgios Tsagdis, Architectural Association.
written in response to Writing Objects and Non-Objects with Georgios Tsagdis, Architectural Association.
The threshold, as an object, embodies the Deleuzian concept of limits to the extent that it becomes other than its physical being, and consequently continues to exist as an object of apperception. Though its cultural implications may differ from one group of people to another, the object’s presence as a limit is widely universal and can be observed as internalizing this conceptual limitisation in much of cultural practice. This essay aims to show the similarity between the Deleuzian concept of limits with Aldo van Eyck’s notion of boundary in the context of threshold as an object. Both limit and boundary of these serve to consolidate a dual relationship, of which the connection is the threshold, that is facilitating a state of change or becoming in Deleuzian terms or an overlapping in-between for Van Eyck.
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