examples of worlding ⁽⁶⁾

“How can we exist in the world without representing it?” page 165 of Peter Conrad’s 1988 Down Home: Revisiting Tasmania. [London: Chatto & Windus]. Example of the usage of the word world. Crossposted.

For my worlding urge arguments about why we should… the curator presenter actually says its the most important thing one can say… “to make things function as they should”. Glossing this as a statement of power misses why statements of power would talk like this. “Make America Great Again” or “Drain the swamp” or "Eat the Rich" are equivalent statements…

In my opening of this series on reading Robert Ardrey's The Territorial Imperative I mention his use of Jean-Jacques Petter's term of noyau as a label for a society of inward antgonism (page 168). In the second post Figuring out the grounds beneath the world: noyau, lek and home I explore the noyau in relation to other similar notions in…

D.M. Thomas’ Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A Century in his Life. (1998, New York: St. Martin's Press.) When I was cataloguing this biography I was reminded of the copy of Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago my mother had on the family bookcase at home. I eventually read it and went on to borrow from the state library in Launceston a hardcover of One Day in the Life…

From the missoulacurrent.com by Laura Lundquist “This is such a special day, a day we envisioned many years ago. But it really wasn’t ready to happen until today,” Thompson said. “It happened because of hard work. Hours upon hours, days upon days, of trying to figure out not only how to do it, and where to do it and how…

Examples of people worlding in their words I’ll list under here examples of people drawing on the worlding urge more directly than usual. By more directly I mean that they are not using more derived frameworks to structure or form. They still use metaphor and simile, we are wordy worlders afterall, and it may be that they appear sacharin or…