Open AccessOpening Plenary : Communicating about Theoretical Geography
Author(s) -
Dénise Pumain
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
cybergeo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.16
H-Index - 16
ISSN - 1278-3366
DOI - 10.4000/cybergeo.1007
Subject(s) - wonder , metaphor , superimposition , art history , space (punctuation) , symbol (formal) , wish , visual arts , sociology , art , epistemology , philosophy , anthropology , computer science , linguistics , artificial intelligence
First of all, I wish to thank Yves Guermond for drawing a superb image as a symbol of our colloquium. This superimposition of bookshelves on the Etretat cliffs reminds us of the splendid metaphor developed by Abraham Moles, the specialist in the psychology of space, about the wall of knowledge, which is continuously under construction, and to which each new piece of research adds a new brick. But might we not wonder whether there is not a risk that, as in the case of the Normandy cliffs last ..