The apology of crack

Abstract

This article presents the experience of semantic and philosophicalsymbolic interpretation of the image of a crack, break or rupture in a broad context of cultural evolution, and, above all, in its contemporary conceptual and cultural-methodological meaning. The crack is viewed as an alternative to superficiality, as a concept of indepth optics, as a condition of a penetrating view on the destiny of history and cognition, art and education, architecture and urbanism.