Abstract

Two cases of space, considered from the perspective of the modal injunctive category, are proposed. As it is well-known, according to A. Greimas, this category characterises law, but the legal articulation of content can be seen as a particular case of injunctiveness, where a series of further discursive effects operate. The expressive matter constituted by spatiality can, thus, be charged with injunctive values, coming to correlate, under appropriate conditions, with a plan of the legal content. This happens, for example, in that “exceptionalµ space that is the parliamentary hall (here is exemplified the one in Montecitorio). But there are many other cases, more common in experience, where spaces, though unfairly charged, do not articulate legal values, going so far as to deny them. This is what seems to happen, for example, in deterrence architecture, where one can discern, at the limit, a camouflage and counterfeiting of the legal “modeµ operated by presupposed dispensations of “pureµ injunctiveness.