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November 27, 2003
Leunig
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.
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it 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.