Moral re-turns in geography. Chora: On ethics as an image

This paper focuses on the geographical notion of chora, i.e. the earth as ethically shaped by human practices, according to my interpretation of Strabo\u2019s Geography. I argue that this chora is bearer of a logic of the included third/middle, as it coincides with the logico-semantic third way of Plato\u2019s notion of image. Re-interpreting today\u2019s geographical turns in the light of a re-turn to Strabo\u2019s chora/image, I argue that this return is moral, inasmuch as the geographical chora shows that ethics has preserved a logic of image and representation, which is the most ancient in Western thought, but also the most appropriate to contemporary issues. The geographical model of chora which I delineate here \u2013 a complex model on the basis of which ethics works in the same way as an image \u2013 is also the attempt to propose an alternative theory on the nature of image as well as an alternative interpretation of the role which ethics can play in current debate