What happens when we internalize the ownership of property? Not just property, like land, but other kinds of property. Stuff.
How does living in an age of quick and easy “stuff” change us and how we move through the world?
On the stories April and Frank Wheeler told themselves
In “Revolutionary Road,” April and Frank Wheeler are a young married couple driven by ideas. The ideas they hold are of essence and forms, conceptions of things and states and realities that—for them—hold truth, greatness, and validity inherently within them. This essentialist thinking permeates the entire novel, as the couple desperately tries to avoid the [...]
On capturing the full scope of an evanescent vapor. With an audio recorder.
Language can invoke processual notions, instead of flattening concepts into static state-things. I know this because I read Heidegger. Somehow the experience of tracking hatch marks across paper takes on this rich and lush expansiveness, wherein history is also the future.
Place makes “a people”
The introduction to the book “Community and the Politics of Place” begins with a discussion of the similarities and differences between the Montana constitution and the US Constitution. The author sets up the idea that place (that is, the rolling plains and majestic mountains mentioned in the document) had much to do with how and [...]