Spaciousness

Room to maneuver (Koto-ku, Tokyo)

Social and physical room to inhabit complex mixed worlds (Koto-ku, Tokyo)

We have a native spaciousness in our inhabitation of places.

That is:

• any place is always penetrated and porous even if it defines itself as not so penetrated
• no set of local meanings can close totally around us (though there are ways to make it appear that that is the case)
• no assembly of places defines us completely
• there is no ultimate formal system that we operate according to, and formal systems are elements in the process of self and place creation and re-creation
• there is room to maneuver because of our involvement in the reception and passing on of social grammars
• no place's prohibitions or demands are unavoidable
• meanings slip even if we don't try to move them
• We can never dominate or find total rationality in the textures of action that define us, but we can come to be more and more aware of our participation in the process of their support and reinterpretation through time.

• [Nearby: Gateway -- Kant outline -- Modern homelessness / native spaciousness ]