Humans have always constructed spaces, through Mythos and Logos, as part of an aspiration to capture the essence of the changing world. This has been a permanent endeavour since the invention of language. By doing this, in fact, Humankind started constructing itself: we are beings in constant evolutionary process in real and imaginary spaces. Our concepts of Space and our anthropological ideas, specially the fundamental concepts of subject and subjectivity, are intertwined and intimately connected. We believe that the great narratives about Humanity, which ultimately define our view of ourselves, are entangled with those concepts that Cassirer identified as the cornerstones of culture: space, time, and number. To explore these ideas, the authors wrote an essay, in 2017, in a book format, in which the fundamental role of real and imaginary spaces (and especially of their dimensionalities) in the History of Culture was discussed. This book, titled O Livro, o Espac{c}o e a Natureza: Ensaio Sobre a Leitura do Mundo, as Mutac{c}~oes da Cultura e do Sujeito, has a preface written by Francisco Antonio Doria. As many of the issues treated there are among his multiple interests, it was decided to revisit here the problems of subjectivity and subjects relationship with the dimensionality of space including the question of the architecture of books and other writing supports.
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