Tag: spaces

• Not so close, eh?

  I have this thing about spaces between stuff for some reason -maybe it’s because my only sibling was ten years older than me, and I hated sharing a bed with him when I was young; he rolled around a lot at night. One of my first comments on personal space in writing, though, was an…

  gozzter

  September 17, 2025

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  endurantism, holes, perdurantism, spaces, Time

• A sorry sight?

  I am fascinated by liminality, intrigued by areas that exist on the edge of things, or in the space between them. I’m not sure when it all started, or why it has had such a hold on my imagination -but there you have it. Not everything has an owner, or for that matter even a…

  gozzter

  January 19, 2022

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  boundaries, collectivism, edges, Gunter Nitschke, Haiku, Kyoto Journal, liminality, ma, Matsuo Basho, philosophy, spaces, things

• When I was at home, I was in a better place

  I am a railway child -or, more specifically, I am the child of a railway father. And as a result the family was transferred to a new location every few years; I have lived in almost every province of Canada at one time or other, so home for me was always a shifting target -a…

  gozzter

  September 11, 2019

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  anthropology, Cheryl Mattingly, ethnography, home, homelessness, Johannes Lenhard, Mary Douglas, Max Planck Cambridge Centre for Ethics Economy and Social Change, Michel Foucault, railway child, spaces, The Paradox of Hope