November 27, 2003
modern life
This condition is often celebrated as nomadism. The nomads leave the habitual domains of place, with their traditions and habits, professional standards and hierarchies, fixed social arrangements, lifestyles, relationships), domestical patterns, psychological conditions and institutional organisations.
They become travellers who connect with many singular experiences, perspectives and ideas, as they operate on a small scale in the margins everywhere in our society. The nomad strives for connections of differences beyond the realm of representation and meaning.
The nomad is the netsurfer. Here today, gone tomorrow. They understand themselves to forever moving in between territories, identities and dominant meanings; as courageously navigating the codes, representations and institutions that are imposed on us in our everyday life. Nomadism expresses a sensibility and practical logic to mutate and escape these boundaries. To be forever free beyond the limits that constrain our possibilities.
Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at November 27, 2003 12:33 PM | TrackBackit still speaks to me of an attempt at self-salvation from the innate woe of life. no different from what one is trying to escape. which suggests to me the fruits will be the same.
Posted by: saint on November 27, 2003 06:12 PMaah saint, you see the sacred in eveyday life.
You have an eye for the flash of the sacred in a profane world.
Posted by: Gary Sauer-Thompson on November 27, 2003 06:29 PMaah gary
it's friday. i'm tired.
but i think you just paid me out.
and i think i will pay you that one!