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The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self
You could say the same thing is happening on a much larger scale in our culture. There’s a multitude of familiar factors pushing us all into different histories, from misinformation to identity politics, and as a country, there is less and less of a singular timeline that the majority of us can agree on.
But a second, and perhaps more important,... See more
Furniture is solid. Furniture is dependable. Furniture is rarely changing. Furniture is the heavy things that hold down the corners of your life.
But when you live in another country, like me, and you’re never sure how long, exactly, you’ll be living in that country, like me, your relationship to heavy things changes. Maybe this is true if you’ve mo... See more
But when you live in another country, like me, and you’re never sure how long, exactly, you’ll be living in that country, like me, your relationship to heavy things changes. Maybe this is true if you’ve mo... See more
As a whole, late modernity is moving too fast for questions about the substance of the good life (we’ll explore this more fully in chapters to come). Somewhere deep within, we know that concerning ourselves with substance will slow us down and inconvenience us in our pursuit of the project of the self.
Andrew Root • The Congregation in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #3): Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life
Indeed, many of us have found ourselves in some way in the business of creating content, messaging, ideas, designs, identities. Even our leisure time somehow seems bound up in producing or consuming free content for the platforms of the attention economy. All that was solid has melted into air.