Tuesday, October 28, 2008
From 'One Place After Another' by Miwon Kwon
“…The more we travel for work, the more we are called upon to provide institutions in other parts of the country and the world with our presence and services, the more we give in to the logic of nomadism, one could say, the more we are made to feel wanted, needed, validated and relevant. Our very sense of self-worth seems predicated more and more on our suffering through the inconveniences and psychic destabilizations of ungrounded transience, of not being at home (or not having a home), of always traveling through elsewheres. Whether we enjoy it or not, we are culturally and economically rewarded for enduring the ‘wrong’ place. We are out of place all too often. Or, perhaps more accurately, the distinction between home and elsewhere, between ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ places, seems less and les relevant in the constitution of the self." MIWON KWON
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