Bentham ’ s ideal prison ) reaffirms , at the same time , the strength of the original project and its inability to hold on to the present . It re-launches an imprint of horror and power . The path on the road that runs through part of the perimeter of the island up , up to the cemetery , opens up to a dimension of meditation , of relationship with the power of nature , of the rocks , of the sea , of the sky , which is found in the abandoned cemetery , with its worn crosses lying on the ground , as a point of further concentration and thought .
The recognition of the character of this place and its history was the starting point of the project , which has been set , since the beginning , the goal of a “ remembrance ” capable , however , of representing an opportunity to “ presence ” and therefore to relaunch towards the future . A goal that deserves , in its intonation , a brief clarification .
The “ remembrance ” does not coincide with the erudition , it is not resolved by an antiquarian dimension , nor with the abstract consideration of “ intrinsic ”, nostalgic or worse historicism values , of memories . Remembrance , as Walter Benjamin suggests , is not articulated on a linear and empty time , but a time in which memory and present intersect . “ The time that fortune-tellers questioned , to steal from them what was hidden in her womb , was certainly not experienced by them either as homogeneous or as void . Those who keep this in mind perhaps come to get an idea of how past time was experienced in remembrance .... In it , every second was the small door through which the messiah could enter ” ( Thesis XVII B ).
In this perspective , remembrance is the path that leads to the qualification of “ presence ”.
The place that this project is called to constitute must not be a
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