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.
Noema • 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 .
Noema • 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
Noema • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information
As temporal structures, rituals arrest time. Temporal spaces we can enter in celebration do not pass away. Without such temporal structures, time becomes a torrent that tears us apart from each other and away from ourselves.
Noema • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information
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. They turn the world into a reliable place. They are to time what a home is to space: they render time habitable. They even make it accessible, like a house. They structure time, furnish it. In his novel Citade
... See moreByung-Chul Han • The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present
To paraphrase Antoine Saint-Exupéry, we may say: rituals are in life what things are in space.
Byung-Chul Han • The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present
Rituale lassen sich als symbolische Techniken der Einhausung definieren. Sie verwandeln das In-der-Welt-Sein in ein Zu-Hause-Sein. Sie machen aus der Welt einen verlässlichen Ort. Sie sind in der Zeit das, was im Raum eine Wohnung ist. Sie machen die Zeit bewohnbar. Ja, sie machen sie begehbar wie ein Haus. Sie ordnen die Zeit, richten sie ein. In
... See moreByung-Chul Han • Vom Verschwinden Der Rituale
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.