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article on ProHo in SpaceCulture mag — Brooklynian

article on ProHo in SpaceCulture mag

anonymous
anonymous
edited November -1 in Prospect Heights
There is an article on walking through Prospect Heights in the Nov 1st issue of the very cerebral journal Space & Culture. "Walking, Emotion, and Dwelling: Guided Tours in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn." The abstract says that it is photography and ethnology, and partially covers "residents emotional-phenomenological experience of walks..." through the "hood, with a "diverse group of residents." Anyone know anyone involved in this? Do they sell S&C at Barnes and Noble? One can get the article online, but it's $15 (and only for a day!). It's $75 if you want the whole journal. A little pricey. Anyone have a subscription who is willing to share this article with us?

Here's my favorite part from from the abstract: ...constructing senses of dwelling and Heideggerian lifeworld." I went to an Ivy-League school but.. "lifeworld?" I don't know if that's academic or hippy.

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  • anonymous
    anonymous
    The link is http://sac.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/8/4/459
  • metulj
    metulj
    crowhiller wrote: The link is http://sac.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/8/4/459
    I've got it on request from Interlibrary Loans. I will forward it when I get it.
  • jamesondean
    jamesondean
    I spent an entire semester on Heidegger. Yes, I wanted to go back in time and kill him. He's grinning beyond the grave in purposeful obtuseness.

    Anyway, anyone using a phrase like "Heideggerian Lifeworld" is really reaching. That's like saying you're "in the moment," or that your environment is "pregnant with possibility." Huzzah.
  • anonymous
    anonymous

    Subject: "lifeworld"

    Curiousity drove me to do a websearch on "lifeworld." It's a term used in Sociological Psychology, so I guess it's both academic and hippy. Pairing lifeworld and Heidegger does seem to be approaching clap-trap; but, I haven't read the article-- have been too cheap. I can walk around the 'hood myself in my own life (such as it is) world, as diverse as I wanna be. Plus, I have no trouble sleeping. Hope it's cool though.
  • jack
    jack
    Heideggerian Lifeworld? Is that some sort of bad sci-fi locale?

    ONE: We seem to be approaching a lifeworld. A heideggerian lifeworld!
    TWO: In this quadrant? How can that be!
    ONE: I have a bad feeling about this.
    THREE: Maybe now someone will listen to me!
    ONE: Rotate shield harmonics.
    TWO: And let's hope those heideggerian's don't have blasters.
  • mc
    mc
    Jack wrote: Heideggerian Lifeworld? Is that some sort of bad sci-fi locale?

    ONE: We seem to be approaching a lifeworld. A heideggerian lifeworld!
    TWO: In this quadrant? How can that be!
    ONE: I have a bad feeling about this.
    THREE: Maybe now someone will listen to me!
    ONE: Rotate shield harmonics.
    TWO: And let's hope those heideggerian's don't have blasters.
    Hah! I guess you know the answer to the following trivia question: What line appears in all six Star Wars films?
    I guessed it having only ever seen the first four.
    8) 8) 8)
  • jack
    jack
    mc wrote: Hah! I guess you know the answer to the following trivia question: What line appears in all six Star Wars films?
    I guessed it having only ever seen the first four.
    8) 8) 8)
    It's either "I've got a bad feeling about this..." or "Let's get out of here!"

    And those lines are not exclussive to Star Wars films. Tons of good and bad films have them. Someone should do a montage of them.
  • chippenziedeutch
    chippenziedeutch
    Funny story, waaaaay off topic, but a couple friends of mine are graduates of Pomona College out in cali, and apprently Pomona has a fascination with the number 47 (apparently like other schools have mascots, they have a number. And a mascot.) I've been told all the reasons why, but I forget, and I'm sure you can waste some google time if you're innerested.

    Anyway, so my friend is at a gas station in some random non-North-American country where he randomly runs into another Pomona Graduate, and they go to a bar to have a drink, and this other dude happens to be a writer for Star Trek: TNG. And he tells my friend that when he started writing for ST, he would amuse himself by peppering the scripts with 47 as often as he could, i.e.

    "We have 47 seconds left until the Exodus Device explodes!"

    or

    "We're 47 light years from that Rumpolivis! We'll never make it in time!"

    or

    "Fast? My ship can make the kessel run in 47 parsecs"

    And apparently it took off as an inside joke, or there are a lot of Pomona grads working in writing, because if you're looking for them you can find them all over (I've seen a bunch of 47s in Alias and Lost, although how it missed out on the big 4 8 15 16 23 42 I don't know)
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