The fragmented Parthenon as an apparatus for a new understanding of the European cultural landscape

Abstract

This article raises the relevance of a transcription of the European cultural landscape through the fragmented Parthenon, drawn from three angles: a first one, to describe its machine-like possibility to build symbols and stories; a second one, that attends to its laminar, displaced and delocalized nature; and a third one, that questions the possibility of a construct that connects its scattered matter with the new places it inhabits and with the people who approach it, enabling a new way of reading it. This analysis is proposed as a triptych and not as a concatenation of causes and effects. It constitutes a fertile way towards a conversation, allowing to intuit the importance of the cultural restitution in order to redefine and transcribe the Parthenon from the present.