The Double Bedroom of the Out-of-town Student. Idiorhythmias of a Shared Space?

Abstract

The following article aims to analyse the spatial configuration of the bedroom of out-of-town individuals, particularly a shared bedroom within an apartment rented to young adults, in relation to a bedroom shared by two siblings. The purpose will be to highlight isotopies but above all differences in how different individuals, linked by different relationships, experience a space that is configured similarly. The fundamental question to be addressed will focus on whether or not it is possible to speak of idiorhythmia, in Barthesian terms, within an environment such as the bedroom and in a dual relationship, both situations where Barthes does not conceive the concept of idiorhythmia but which, when revisited today as places of mediation between two often unknown figures such as two roommates sharing the same bedroom, could find conformity. To do this, we will analyze spaces, practices, but also passions that arise in this place, keeping in mind the type of contract established between different subjectivities and what values are at stake.