The Complex of Cain, the Tension of Abel Space, City, Imaginary

Building on Cedric Price's exceptional graphic synthesis, the chapter aims to triangulate the city's "state of exception" with the world-concepts of space and imaginary, investigating their reciprocal relationships. Architectures, understood as objects located in space, are the tools used by man to try to resolve his unresolvable - and restless - relationship with space, caught between the structuring complex of Cain and the heterotopic tension of Abel. In this sense, a Menhir at the center of a campaign ending the season of wandering, a stone arch capable of synthesizing democracy in Classical Greece, or the cancerous lattice of the postmodern metropolis, so similar to the net, are just a few examples in which the construction of the social world through symbols in space can be dialectically read as a product of the imaginary and as its producer.