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What might replace particularity ?
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Deferred centers and weakened universals (columns discarded during a renovation of the Capitol building in Washington, D.C.)
What are the local and the universal, now? (Dulles Airport)
About local places: What is the replacement for the notion of particularity? We think we know what the particular is: the immediate and given determination. Usually, it is the totality or the universal that we are unsure of. But they come as a package. So I ask what replaces particularity, if we have changed our notions of the totality or the universal.Or perhaps: what was the notion of particularity an abstraction from? What does it mean, in terms of place, to ask about a replacement for particularity? For one thing, it means that boundaries don't just neatly surround centers. Another, more concrete way of putting the question: what does it mean, now, to be local*?[Nearby: Methods: let it be -- Piecemeal planning -- A caution ]