Place and Space

"Place is not only coadunative but also...deconstructive -- deconstructive of oppositions that it brings and holds together within its own ambience.  These oppositions include binary pairs of terms that have enjoyed hegemonic power in Western epistemology and metaphysics.  I am thinking of such dichotomies as subject and object, self and other, formal and substantive, mind and body, inner and outer, perception and imagination (or memory), and nature and culture themselves."

-- Edward S. Casey. 1997.   "How to get from space to place in a fairly short stretch of time: Phenomenological prolegomena"  (36)

Play and Repeat

Wow, this explains soo much!

Karl Hyde (Underworld) - music he listens to over and over again:

2001: A Space Odyssey: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1968 LP)
When I was 11 I locked myself in a wardrobe for two weeks with a record player and the soundtrack to 2001. I took dad's torch to be alone reliving the sensations I'd experienced in the Kidderminster Odeon. It was György Ligeti's work that I felt instant empathy with. It gave me my first insight into the beauty concealed in the union of discordant harmonies. Images of virtual spaces and conceptual rooms floated through my 11-year-old head, rewiring a provincial imagination. The road to a life beyond Worcestershire slowly opened. Thirty-eight years later, working on the score to Danny Boyle's Sunshine, I was shaking, excited, eager to reignite a memory. It felt like coming home, drawing on the experience of that first encounter with a soundtrack that altered the entire course of my life.

Source

Did You Say 'Winter?'

Note

The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being.  Philosophy is not the reflection of a pre-existing truth, but, like art, the act of bringing truth into being.
The Phenomenology of Perception Merleau-Ponty

2011 Book Challenge

 1.         1. Ukrainian

         1.

                         2. Theory/Philosophy

           1.

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3.   Tomes

      1. War and Peace

      2. Don Quixote

      3. Drood

4.   Books from the Family

      1. Decolonizing the Mind

      2. Wizard of the Crow

      3. Parlor Politics

      4. Planning the Past or the Invasion Within

5.   Left Behind

      1. The Brothers Karamazov

      2. Dead Souls

      3.The Windup Girl

      4. Landscape Painted with Tea

      5.

6.   Listed

      1. Iron Council

      2. Ash

      3. Life of Pi

      4. Gulag Archipelago

      5. Beloved, Morrison

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7.   South

      1. Sound of Building Coffins

      2. One Hundred Years of Solitude

      3. North and South, Gaskell

      4. A Confederacy of Dunces

      5. Antarctica, Robinson

      6. Zeitoun, Dave Eggers

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8.   Its New to Me

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9.   Science Fiction/Fantasy

      1. Vivia, Tanith Lee

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10.  You Tell Me

      1. The Yawning Heights

      2. Pastel City, Harrison

      3.The Fool's Progress by Edward Abbey

      4. The Book Thief

      5. World War Z

      6. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Kundera

      7. 2666, Bolano

      8. Detective Story by Imre Kertesz

      9. Lady Oracle, Atwood

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11. Ongoing Faulkner Challenge

      1. Pylon

      2. Absalom Absalom

      3. The Unvanquished

      4. If I forget Thee Jerusalem

      5. The Hamlet

      6. Go Down Moses

      7. Intruder in the Dust

      8. Requim for a Nun

      9. A Fable

      10. The Town

      11. The Mansion

Explanations:

1. Ukrainian: Read a book in Ukrainian, this will take me all year

2. Theory/Philosophy: General Philosophy or some Anthropology theorist I should have already read

3. Tomes: Is it huge? I'm gonna read it! (But only three).

4. Book from the Family: Actually just books from my brother, I am embarrassed by the number of books he has bought me that I have not read.

5. Left Behind: Books I started, but never finished.

6. Listed: If its on a list -- of any kind -- it goes here.

7. South: Everywhere is south of somewhere, right? But really focused on the U.S. South and South America.

8. Its New to Me: New in 2011, or new author.

9. Science Fiction/Fantasy:

10. You Tell Me: Recommendations? I'll just pick books to read for this category based on any sort of recommendation - personal, Amazon, LT, blog, etc.

11. Ongoing Faulkner Challenge: Once upon a time I was supposed to read 8 Faulkner novels for 2008. That didn't happen, so now I'm just going to read all of them.