The Geographical Unconscious

[...]we encounter Picasso and Dali while contemplating the focal multiplicity of a Byzantine icon; we stumble in archaic layers of mythical ancient and medieval pasts as we wander through the urban capitals and peripheries of European modernity. According to Loukaki, the modern project, with its faith in science, rationality, and objectivity, in reality never managed to obliterate the mythical, the irrational, and the spiritual; "rather, it eclipsed [them] below a surface of rigid rationalism" (p. 5).