Toward a Prospective View of Milieu. Facing the Challenge of the Sensitive Dimension in Land Development
In this article we investigate the role of the sensitive dimension in land development as we attempt to assess its potential contribution to a deliberation on the normativity of its action models, and their sticking points and capacity to innovate. Initially, land development is compared to a clinical activity that encourages experimentation as well as a non-instrumental application of these norms; and the sensitive dimension of features associated with the geographical milieu is transferred and integrated into a cognitive, political and experiential relationship between land development and milieu. The way the sensitive dimension is configured and distributed partially dictates the normativity of land development, its receptivity to the logic of the individual subject and his/her capacity to bring to his/her mode of living and himself/herself a topicality reflecting today’s challenges. Finally, we shift our focus from this deliberation on a contemporary issue and the propositions on which it is based to the subject of energy transfer and development of landscapes dominated by windmills.