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In his book The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard briefly describes lingering in imagination between, on the one hand, felicitous daydream images of inhabitable and inviting houses and, on the other, upsetting images of seemingly uninhabitable vertical structures that, for him, emblematise the negativity and horror of modern life. For him, this ‘topophilic’ journey through comforting material images of eulogised space can encompass a detour through ‘hostile spaces’.
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Blom, K. (2021). Bachelard’s Phenomenology and Verticality. In: Beattie, M., Kakalis, C., Ozga-Lawn, M. (eds) Mountains and Megastructures. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7110-7_5
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