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TOPOLOGIES OF HISTORY
Author(s) -
MALPAS JEFF
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
history and theory
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.169
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1468-2303
pISSN - 0018-2656
DOI - 10.1111/hith.12097
Subject(s) - topos theory , narrative , happening , character (mathematics) , space (punctuation) , epistemology , history , limit (mathematics) , spacetime , philosophy , literature , linguistics , art history , art , mathematics , physics , mathematical analysis , geometry , quantum mechanics , performance art
History, it is routinely assumed, belongs primarily to time and the temporal. Yet although routine, the assumption is nevertheless mistaken. It is place or topos , which encompasses both time and space (and that is intimately tied to the notion of bound or limit), that is primary here, and so history has to be understood as determined topologically, and not merely temporally. The exploration and elaboration of this claim involves rethinking the ideas of time, space, and place as well as of language and narrative. History appears in its adventual character, but its adventuality is itself seen as a happening of place.