Desire, violence and capital: spaces of representation in the lecture of abstract space in Henri Lefebvre

Abstract

In the present article it is pretend to show the conception of Henri Lefebvre abstract space, which corresponds with its conception of his production in the age of capitalism. In the lecture of the french philosopher the place in which violence takes place is in spaces of representation, that is the lived space that corresponds with the poetic vision of Nietzsche, the place of daily life. This violence attents against desire but in favor of capital, against common potence and in favor of merchandise, matter that it manifest in the urban context, in planification as in architecture. The process of production of this kind of space as abstract, has as essential characteristic repression, but that is sustained by the reification of men and the life of the merchandises; men as not alive, are displaced of his potence to introduce themselves in space as working hand, operative to capital, negating the possibilityof determinating the process of space production, or, best said, manipulating the conditions of his production in a negative way, attenting against men itself

Keywords

• espacio abstracto, violencia, espacios de representación, mercancía, deseo