On Critique (Feb 18)
By Rem / in thesis / February 18, 2010It would appear that I am too much the observer, and not enough the maker: the person engaged in the site. I need to be more explicit in the datum of the 'level of experience' (right now I don't have ...
Read more →On Site
By Rem / in thesis / February 11, 2010I visited the site on February 6th. It took me four days on Bing and Wikitravel to find the site (from January 27th to 30th). It was a blustery cold (23 F) Saturday afternoon that I spent an hour taki...
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On Zazen
By Rem / in thesis / January 26, 2010As I mentioned in my last post, I was reading some texts on Zen Buddhism to acquaint myself with how a well-known practice of 'meditation' (Zen being more than just the English word of 'meditation') c...
Read more → Trial of Passage (of my own)
By Rem / in thesis / January 24, 2010I had a sudden thought that I need to reevaluate my focus. For more than a week I have been reading on Zen/Zazen because I thought those writings would help me develop a structure of ritual so that I ...
Read more →Landscapes of Fear
By Rem / in thesis / January 21, 2010I finished reading Landscapes of Fear by Yi-Fi Tuan (1979). It was a fairly exhaustive look at the broad range of fear(s); from predatory fear, fear of darkness, fear of absence (i.e., fear of not fin...
Read more →On Permanence
By Rem / in thesis / January 19, 2010Are these spaces permanent, however? Ritual spaces and the operators who inhabit them change over time, so does the site change with them or is it discarded or abandoned when its (newer) use is obsole...
Read more →On Ritual and Agency
By Rem / in thesis / January 18, 2010I took a break from thesis for a few days, but not before reading Zen in the Art of Archery on Thursday. My musings on that short work are in my thesis journal (this blog not being a mirror of such co...
Read more →The Uncanny
By Rem / in thesis / January 13, 2010Leonard suggested that I read "The Architecture of the Uncanny: The Unhomely Houses of the Romantic Sublime" by Anthony Vidler, in Assemblage #3 (1987). The focus is on the "uncanny" or the "das unhei...
Read more →Thinking on program
By Rem / in thesis / January 1, 2010A few days ago while I was in San Diego, I was thinking that "ritual/rite of passage" is my program, and not a direct focus of my thesis. I may now disagree with the latter, but the former has merit i...
Read more →A New Year brings New Ideas
By Rem / in thesis / January 1, 2010This morning I had a mild epiphany in regards to my thesis. Over the weeks of December I was thinking about the core concepts of the thesis: stratified overgrowth as a condition/process which allows f...
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