
Saved by Keely Adler and
The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self
Saved by Keely Adler and
Sven Birkerts • 8 highlights
amazon.comHow can we possibly transpose these notions of experiential living to our market society, to our transactional culture of business? Where do we begin?
Against the encroachment of nothingness, we fill our lives with stuff. Against the ultimate negation, we strive for success. Against the hard information that we came from nothing and end there as well, against the resulting suspicion that we might, in fact, be nothing all the while, we struggle mightily to construct an identity, but we’re never qu
... See moreHere is where culture enters the picture. I mean“culture” in its anthropological rather than artisticsense. What values and practices can hold people to-gether as the institutions in which they live fragment? My generation suffered from a want of imagination inanswering this question, in advancing the virtues ofsmall-scale community. Co
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