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Ritual Technology
We can define rituals as symbolic techniques of making oneself at home in the world. They transform being-in-the-world into a being-at-home.
Byung-Chul Han • The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present
The relationship at the heart of ritual is the relationship between life and death, mediated by elemental forces. The kinds of rituals that fall out of that might be a monthly day of silence, perhaps periodic fasting, perhaps singing around the fire. All such things need to be done as symbolic testimony to the joy and sorrow of being human, no... See more
Substack • Imagining a World Beyond Consumerism
Rituals can be defined as temporal technologies for housing oneself. They turn being in the world into being at home. Rituals are in time as things are in space. They stabilize life by structuring time.
Noema • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information
