L’equivoco dello Spatial Turn

The text aims to rethink the so-called “spatial turn”, pointing out the ambiguities and misunderstandings of this expression. It is not uncommon, in fact, think of the space as “geometric” and to the place as “the place lived”; it is not uncommon that you have understood that the other one is like the abstract to the concrete, as the empty to full. The work of De Certeau, who acts as a guide to this essay, tells us that the space as a “unity of multipurpose places” is always “live” (although often it is denied), and the place can always be perceived as “geometric”, as non-place. De Certeau is telling us that there is neither the “geometric space” of Descartes, nor the “non-places” of Marc Augé, or, at least, that we risk confusing the products of the history of ideas with the natural properties of things.