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Tag: placelessness

The nature of culture

Posted on July 13, 2022January 13, 2023 by flourishingcommons

The meeting point between nature and culture is place. Human beings’ destructiveness as a species comes from our discomfort with placelessness. Without feeling the belongingness of being human in the

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Dissertation excerpts, Featured posts, Landscape, Philosophy belonging, colonialism, culture, daoism, dissertation, ethics, placelessness Leave a comment

Finding place, shifting perception: From landscape as image to landscape as cosmology

Posted on June 22, 2022January 13, 2023 by flourishingcommons

While we cannot physically transform the world in 10 days, we can change the way we see the world in 10 days. Shifting the perception of landscapes is the first

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Landscape, Philosophy art, daoism, heidegger, landscape architecture, modernity, phenomenology, placelessness, spirituality and faith, sublime Leave a comment

Romanticism and nostalgia: The modern condition

Posted on March 30, 2022January 13, 2023 by flourishingcommons

I believe that to be passionate about landscapes, you must inevitably also be a romantic. Yet, being a romantic means being stuck in paradoxes: to desire authenticity in an illusive

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Art, Landscape, Philosophy art, colonialism, modernity, nostalgia, placelessness, romanticism Leave a comment

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This blog consists of musings I have about the world, excerpts from my PhD dissertation, and re-postings of articles from a previous blog. I mainly write about spirituality, landscape, art, and philosophy.

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