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But is this bringing us together? can we think a community? In what language….I wish it was.
maybe we can meet in those ‘common places’ and see where we can go from there.. and maybe these places exist before, or beyond, language..
and what about “a form of homelessness that does not seek to return home – a dissident type of nostalgia”… peter d. osborne carries it back to s´unyata—-‘impermanence’, ‘blankness’, ‘nihility’. [In the seventeenth century a Swiss doctor dealing with a condition once called, la maladie du pays (homesickness), invented the word nostalgia from two Greek words, nostos (home) and algia (longing). Svetlana Boym proposes that while there is the longing for the return to the absent mythical place, nostos, there is also the longing for longing itself, algia – it is, she says, citing, Susan Stewart, “enamoured of distance, not of the referent itself”.] -from “The Accidental Theorist”, peter d. osborne