THE 'MOLAR CAGE': LE CORBUSIER AND THE MODULOR


Senturk L.

METU JOURNAL OF THE FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE, cilt.25, sa.2, ss.119-132, 2008 (AHCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 25 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2008
  • Dergi Adı: METU JOURNAL OF THE FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Scopus, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.119-132
  • Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

In this essay, Modulor is redefined as 'molar'. 'Molar' is the name of the categories of sameness baptised by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari in Anti-Oedipus (Capitalism and Schizophrenia, 1972). The molecular is the machines of deire. Molar elements stabilize the molecular components and make them fixed (Lorraine, 1999,115). Molar thoughts as stable and singular codes of society are the sterile formations of thought. Because of this, one can preserve his/her creative powers only by leaving behind the molar identites which cover and surround the self (Lorraine, 1999, 139, 163). To write is to map. To map is the courage to walk away from the known (traditional / conventional), from the coded. On the other hand, to write, no doubt, comprizes wandering beneath the strata. These sedimentary layers or strata are constitutive for the molar structures. Molar structures or sterile becomings are very complicated -just like the concept of family.