“The
fact is that around 1910 a certain space was shattered. It was the space of
common sense, of knowledge (savoir), of social practice, of political power, a
space hitherto enshrined in everyday discourse, just as in abstract thought, as
the environment of and channel for communication; the space, too, of classical
perspective and geometry, developed from the Renaissance onwards on the basis
of the Greek tradition (Euclid, logic) and bodied forth in Western art and
philosophy, as in the form of the city and town.”