Mapping Manhattan by Becky Cooper
Maps are our first mental language.
The Storyteller by Walter Benjamin
Storytelling vs novel
Native Realm by Czeslaw Milosz
It is enough that we realize to what extent thought and word are incommensurable with reality. Then it is possible to set one’s limits consciously.
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
I tell you now that the question of how one should live within a black body, within a country lost in the Dream, is the question of my life, and the pursuit of this question, I have found, ultimately answers itself.
Portrait of an Invisible Man by Paul Auster
“Life becomes death and it’s as if this death has owned life all along.”
“for a man to die of no apparent course, for a man to die simply because he’s a man, brings us so close to invisible boundary between life and death.”
The Tender Stranger by Phillip Lopate
The girl was missing something she didn’t have, and that was a father…
Letters of Transit by Andre Aciman
What makes exile the pernicious thing it is is not really the state of being away, as much as the impossibility of ever not being away.
Remembered Spaces by Verlyn Klinkenborg
…leaving behind only the strange sense of knowing our way around a world that can no longer be found.
Frames of Remembrance by Iwona Irwin-Zarecka
The term “collective memory” accommodates a great variety of territorial claims. At times, it is used to describe the heritage of the whole of humanity, at times, it becomes a national property, at still other times it is said to bond generations.
On Photography by Susan Sontag
As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.
Exhibition as Atmosphere by Henry Urbach
We crave distinct spaces and especially the space of richly textured social experience.
In Protest, the Power of Place by Michael Kimmelman
On the ground is where the protestors are building an architecture of consciousness.
How Columbus Day Fell Victim to Its Own Success by Yoni Applebaum
It’s worth remembering that the now-controversial holiday started as a way to empower immigrants and celebrate American diversity.
Museum, All 60 Square Feet of It, Celebrates the Eccentric by Liz Robbins
“With Museum, it’s about framing the objects that have the unexpected narrative, so that people can be reminded of the absurdity or the beauty or the meaning or the ugliness of everyday objects”
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