#ritual
“What is a ritual?” said the little prince. “It is also something really forgotten,” said the fox. “It is what makes one day different from the other days, one hour, from the other hours.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry • The Little Prince
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
Ritual prevents the ordinary from dissolving into invisibility. If you light a candle at dinner, the meal becomes an event. If you walk at the same time each day, it becomes more than exercise. Anthropologists will tell you that rituals function as technologies of attention: certain ordinary acts aren’t trivial, they’re the architecture of meaning.
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
... See moreByung-Chul Han • The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present
“Forms of rituals, such as manners, make possible both beautiful behaviour among humans and a beautiful, gentle treatment of things. In a ritual context, things are not consumed or used up but used. Thus, they can also become old”
“Rituals are characterized by repetition. Repetition differs from routine in its capacity to create intensity”
“Symbolic
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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
I can honestly say, the two examples that I’ve experienced that seem to bring together oneness within their respective community that go beyond any social construct such as gender, race, socioeconomic status etc in their own weird and wonderful ways are raving and football. If you’ve experienced both, perhaps you’ll know what I mean. I think it’s... See more
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