Il Territorio senza qualità. Sovradeterminazioni narrative e possibilità del progetto nel caso di Carrara

The thesis deals with the case of Carrara providing a reflection on both its understanding and the possibilities of imagining a project. The entry-key is not an original hypothesis: the territory is the outcome of the actions and intentions of time and of human history. In other words, the territory is overdetermined by its own construction process. Just as in Musil’s novel, there is no possibility of redefining the self by confronting with an overwhelming socio-cultural hyperdetermination; in the same way, also the territory, according to this perspective, copes with a radical impossibility for its future, since that spatial and temporal over-determination is so vast and profound as to cancel out its very rich qualities. This is, in particular, the hypothesis moved by this work: the Carrara extraction phenomenon can be read as a constant and continuous hyper-determination that reduces the territory to an extraction-machine.
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