Crossing into human time transforms fragmented space into coherent place.

Evidence

Damiel’s decision to come inside is taken in the no man’s land between two lines of the Berlin Wall, patrolled by soldiers. … There Damiel wakes up to a world of rich and vibrant colours. He has to navigate the city in real physical terms, and in so doing experiences the exhilaration that comes with creating a spatial story (in the manner of de Certeau) simply by traversing the city, which then no longer seems as fragmented but which assumes a more coherent structure. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 2015

Categorization

• XREF: The de Certeau reference and the angel/human spatial contrast echo the book’s broader postmodern-vs-modern spatial narratives as well as Benjamin’s flâneur. — connects to: Interiorization of natural time transforms mere sequence into subjective synthetic unity — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 392; Modern transport shifts orientation from space to time — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 309; Grounded real locations give inner-space dream sequences their power — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 643
• FICTION: The angel descending into human spatial experience is prime material for any story built on a fantasy being learning to navigate mundane geography.

Broader Connections

• Interiorization of natural time transforms mere sequence into subjective synthetic unity #corroborates (0.92) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 392