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Gabriel Espinoza Rivera
Sovereignty, Materiality, and Territorial imagination are the three dimensions severing the novel and witty contribution edited by Franck Billé. These dimensions encompass, to some extent, those possibilities to talk about and understand the world in which we are living regarding volume: volume as this three-dimensional magnitude perceived, experienced, and crafted by its immanent presence;
barring and/or engaging with human, non-human, and ideological actors. Volume tends to contest the idea of the world and the map relying only on the topographic flat surface of the Earth. Volume introduces itself as the air that trespasses us, the sea waves leaving their tidemarks all along the shores, or the mountains and their daunting heights. Pondering on this idea of volume, archaeologist Christopher Tilley (2004) highlights some important points while discussing Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology:
“[…] grounded in the physicality and material existence of the human body in the world”, volume appeared as the immanence of what lies on the other side of humanity. […] We experience and perceive the world because we live in that world and are intertwined within it. We are part of it, and it is part of us. Our bodily Beingin-the-world provides the fundamental ground, or starting point, for our description of it. [p.2]
