147 ISSN 2450-8047 nr 2017/3 (5) http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/ht.2017.5.3.11 s. 147-150 CHAOS, TERRITORY, ART. A REVIEW Adam DOHNAL Adam Mickiewicz University Studying such a highly interesting and complicated environment as the urban space, it is worth relecting on its most basic issues. Under the maze of streets, neighborhoods and squares, we can ind much simpler but signiicant problems. It is oten worth looking at the most basic and simplistic ideas that create and inluence a city reality. What is a building? What changes can be caused by local authorities building an ordinary fence or by a group of local youngsters spray- ing graiti over their rivals’ turf? In this case it is necessary to look at concepts such as space, architecture, territory and map, analyze what they are and how they emerged and what impact they have on city’s residents. Dr. Elisabeth Grosz decided to deal with this problem in a book titled Chaos, Territory, Art. Although the main purpose of this publication is to look at the ontology of art, it contains number of considerations that will help everybody who is interested in a study of urban space, geography, or unique policy of identity. Dr. Elizabeth Grosz is an Australian philosopher. She completed her PhD thesis at the University of Sydney, where she worked from the late seventies to the early nineties. In 1992 Dr. Grosz became the director of the recently formed Institute of Critical and Cultural Studies where she was Associate Professor and Professor in Comparative Literature, Critical heory and Philosophy. At the beginning of the new century she moved to the USA and began her work at a university in New York. Later she moved to Rutgers University where she worked till 2012. She also was as a visiting professor in the University of Bergen, the University of Technology in Sydney, University of California Santa Cruz and Harvard University 1 . Dr. Grosz wrote a series of articles and books focused on feminist subjects, art spaces and evolution. 1 htp://gendersexualityfeminist.duke.edu/people/women-s-studies-welcomes-elizabeth-grosz-to-duke (w chwili oddawania numeru do druku strona internetowa była już nieaktywna – Ł. H.)