Comments on: Towards a Philosophy of Dwelling http://drinkingupstream.wordpress.com/2008/12/18/towards-a-philosophy-of-dwelling/ ...real clear thoughts on the philosophy of dwelling. Sun, 27 Dec 2009 10:48:33 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: David Richardson http://drinkingupstream.wordpress.com/2008/12/18/towards-a-philosophy-of-dwelling/#comment-50 David Richardson Thu, 25 Dec 2008 04:54:54 +0000 http://drinkingupstream.wordpress.com/?p=482#comment-50 Presence sounds Zen Buddhist to me, but he may be referring to a specific form of leadership training. See here: http://www.presence.net/ I'm working my way backwards through your posts Shane, from Adorno to the Jameson excerpt and here to your "statement of purpose". The transition from Modernism to Post-Modernism and perhaps past post-modernism, is something I think about a lot as an artist, looking for an "entry point" to the conversation as you put it. Art critic John Perreault has invented something he calls the "braid theory" of art history, which is quite useful in thinking about these historical categories and narratives and about how artists can use them. Blog on. Presence sounds Zen Buddhist to me, but he may be referring to a specific form of leadership training. See here: http://www.presence.net/

I’m working my way backwards through your posts Shane, from Adorno to the Jameson excerpt and here to your “statement of purpose”. The transition from Modernism to Post-Modernism and perhaps past post-modernism, is something I think about a lot as an artist, looking for an “entry point” to the conversation as you put it. Art critic John Perreault has invented something he calls the “braid theory” of art history, which is quite useful in thinking about these historical categories and narratives and about how artists can use them. Blog on.

]]> By: Shane Waggoner http://drinkingupstream.wordpress.com/2008/12/18/towards-a-philosophy-of-dwelling/#comment-29 Shane Waggoner Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:01:52 +0000 http://drinkingupstream.wordpress.com/?p=482#comment-29 It's intimately related to community, obviously, if you take one of the important elements of dwelling to be the question of how we are brought into relation with others, how we live or dwell with others. Your term presence seems theological, and I'm not opposed to that (I think Heidegger's essay on dwelling invokes something almost theological). But I would want to be persuaded that I should be thinking about dwelling in terms of presence. I think the term dwelling is a good one to pose a question that implicates community, city planning, architecture, design, public space, social geography, even perhaps virtual habitats, which is something I'm exploring. Dwelling is for me a broader concept that includes these things, and which refers us to the question of how we exist in relation to things, to put it rather abstractly. So to dwell is to be in relation, it is to relate, which is an activity, and to dwell is something that has to catch us up in the various endeavors that establish our positions with respect to space and shelter and neighbors and so forth. I like 'dwelling' because it lets me think about a lot of different social practices under one heading, as attempts to be or live a certain way, and it lets me sort of evaluate how we dwell, understand the unstated principles of our dwelling and scrutinize them. Community, absolutely; presence, I need to hear more from you about that. It’s intimately related to community, obviously, if you take one of the important elements of dwelling to be the question of how we are brought into relation with others, how we live or dwell with others. Your term presence seems theological, and I’m not opposed to that (I think Heidegger’s essay on dwelling invokes something almost theological). But I would want to be persuaded that I should be thinking about dwelling in terms of presence. I think the term dwelling is a good one to pose a question that implicates community, city planning, architecture, design, public space, social geography, even perhaps virtual habitats, which is something I’m exploring. Dwelling is for me a broader concept that includes these things, and which refers us to the question of how we exist in relation to things, to put it rather abstractly. So to dwell is to be in relation, it is to relate, which is an activity, and to dwell is something that has to catch us up in the various endeavors that establish our positions with respect to space and shelter and neighbors and so forth. I like ‘dwelling’ because it lets me think about a lot of different social practices under one heading, as attempts to be or live a certain way, and it lets me sort of evaluate how we dwell, understand the unstated principles of our dwelling and scrutinize them. Community, absolutely; presence, I need to hear more from you about that.

]]> By: Jason http://drinkingupstream.wordpress.com/2008/12/18/towards-a-philosophy-of-dwelling/#comment-28 Jason Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:44:35 +0000 http://drinkingupstream.wordpress.com/?p=482#comment-28 Matt, How closely is this philosophy of dwelling related to issues of community and/or presence? I'm interested to learn more about dwelling from a sociological perspective. Matt,

How closely is this philosophy of dwelling related to issues of community and/or presence? I’m interested to learn more about dwelling from a sociological perspective.

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