Text/Image Border Nodes: The Bridge as a Splitting Place

Abstract

The present article approaches the bridge as a transitory place, establishing that mobility can be undertaken from the point of view of figurative nodes (centrifugal dissemination of the imaginary/ centripetalattractor, stereotypes, socio-cultural symbols). From the dossier dedicated to the bridge as a metaphoric relational place, the present intervention verifies the hypothesis according to which the bridge can be seen as a splitting place, a “heterotrophy”, a formula for (de)territoriality acknowledging the simultaneous representations of the space distributed in symbolic places. Beyond the splitting effect, the border nodes involve a trans-cultural mapping of a re-knotted place as a correlation of spaces with reflexes towards something which might project one over/beyond the limits/ borders.

Keywords

• splitting effect
• border
• bridge
• nodes
• place