An Invisible Subject, Space
‘The central theme of this book is social and personal space and man 's perception of it’ (Hall, E.T 1966, p. 1). This is the first sentence of a book named ‘The hidden dimension’. Space and the perception of it, people normally imagine some physical objects, or something we can see through eyes. However, when we carefully think about the space, it is actually not just an object that can touch by our hands, can be something cannot see through our eyes but still can fill and remain in our brain. In this book, Hall talks about the hidden dimension, how man perceives the space through society and each individauls. Then Hall uses various research to recognise the problem of our crowded cities, and suggest few solutions that can be more realistic and understandable to us. Even further, he analyses the structure of between man and the invisible culture, to combine its massive and rapidly changing informations into one indicator, which can be the solution. According to his approach of space, Hall …show more content…
For example, Western man sees the space as objectives, which are fixed; however, Eestern man sees the space as subjectives that are semi-fixed. These ideas of space with the term proxemics, takes more associations and get hidden behind of the visual to a much profounder sensual space (p. 94). In the perception of space and man, the author deals with the similar informations but from a dissimilar perspective of view comparing with the study of animals such as how man assembles the space as fixed or semi-fixed together with the various distances he applies in networking with others. To help to understand these challenging ideas, Hall defined the space and distance in human society by four proxemic zones, which are the intimate, personal, social and public zones. However, it also can easily shift by cultures and appears differently by different
‘The central theme of this book is social and personal space and man 's perception of it’ (Hall, E.T 1966, p. 1). This is the first sentence of a book named ‘The hidden dimension’. Space and the perception of it, people normally imagine some physical objects, or something we can see through eyes. However, when we carefully think about the space, it is actually not just an object that can touch by our hands, can be something cannot see through our eyes but still can fill and remain in our brain. In this book, Hall talks about the hidden dimension, how man perceives the space through society and each individauls. Then Hall uses various research to recognise the problem of our crowded cities, and suggest few solutions that can be more realistic and understandable to us. Even further, he analyses the structure of between man and the invisible culture, to combine its massive and rapidly changing informations into one indicator, which can be the solution. According to his approach of space, Hall …show more content…
For example, Western man sees the space as objectives, which are fixed; however, Eestern man sees the space as subjectives that are semi-fixed. These ideas of space with the term proxemics, takes more associations and get hidden behind of the visual to a much profounder sensual space (p. 94). In the perception of space and man, the author deals with the similar informations but from a dissimilar perspective of view comparing with the study of animals such as how man assembles the space as fixed or semi-fixed together with the various distances he applies in networking with others. To help to understand these challenging ideas, Hall defined the space and distance in human society by four proxemic zones, which are the intimate, personal, social and public zones. However, it also can easily shift by cultures and appears differently by different