rituals are to time what home is to space: they render time habitable - byung-chul han
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. They give us festive spaces, so to speak, spaces we can enter in celebration .
Byung-Chul Han • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information
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. They give us festive spaces, so to speak, spaces we can enter in celebration. As temporal structures, rituals arrest time. Temporal spaces we ... See more
Byung-Chul Han • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information
To paraphrase Antoine Saint-Exupéry, we may say: rituals are in life what things are in space.