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Thin Places: Essays from In Between
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2020
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3 editions
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n+1 Issue 22: Conviction
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“if you are stuck somewhere small in your mind, somewhere unhappy or afraid or paralyzed or heartbroken, all of which are a kind of claustrophobic circling and circling, you might be able to reverse-engineer an expansion, shove yourself through into some larger mind place by putting yourself in the way of some vaster spaces in the world.”
― Thin Places: Essays Between Knowing and Nothing
― Thin Places: Essays Between Knowing and Nothing
“I no longer had words for the Somethingness of the world, and so it quietly receded.”
― Thin Places: Essays from In Between
― Thin Places: Essays from In Between
“a “heterotopia,” or a space that exists beyond the reach of normal human systems and social mores. Foucault saw heterotopias everywhere: graveyards, hospitals, boats. In heterotopias, certain inviolable binaries “that our institutions and practices have not yet dared to break down” collide and reveal something. In that space of breakdown between, say, “private space and public space, between family space and social space, between cultural space and useful space, between the space of leisure and that of work,” he argues, we can look and find “the hidden presence of the sacred.”
― Thin Places: Essays Between Knowing and Nothing
― Thin Places: Essays Between Knowing and Nothing
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