Khôra I. from amar wa Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 3 min 67 sec
✓ Published: 24-Sep-2013

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Khôra (Khora or Chora; Ancient Greek: χώρα)nis a philosophical term described by Plato in Timaeus as a receptacle, a space, or an interval. It is neither being nor nonbeing but an interval between in which the “forms” were originally held. Khôra “gives space” and has maternal overtones (a womb, matrix). A formless and unnameable “it” that we cannot identify but only evoke with images of unidentifiable places, like a kind of dissolution into the tohu wa bohu* (waste and void), w