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To Avert Blight, City Will Repair and Resell Vacant Homes - NYTimes.com

Shane Waggoner wrote 10 months ago: To Avert Blight, City Will Repair and Resell Vacant Homes – NYTimes.com. … more →

Tags: Architecture, Politics (for when something is off topic but needs to

'The House is Past' (Philosophy of Dwelling series, part 4) 1 comment

Shane Waggoner wrote 10 months ago: This is for my old friend the Village Scribe, with whom I have been having a great conversation on t … more →

Tags: Adorno, Architecture, Benjamin, Heidegger, Literature, Philosophy of Dwelling, the series, Popular Culture

What We Can Do To Cope With Recession AND Live Better: Downsize6 comments

Shane Waggoner wrote 10 months ago: Our economic recession was ignited by a mortgage crisis. Behind the wheel of the mortgage crisis, a … more →

Tags: Architecture, Philosophy of Dwelling, the series, Popular Culture, Cities, consumer, consumption, downsize, downsizing, Dwelling

Heidegger, Dwelling, Television, and the Internet2 comments

Shane Waggoner wrote 10 months ago: Caterina – cofounder of flickr, writer, blogger, and a lot of other things – swept me of … more →

Tags: Heidegger, Popular Culture, Caterina, Dwelling, Television, TV

Adorno, Craft, and the American Countryside1 comment

Shane Waggoner wrote 10 months ago: I’ve been posting on two fronts of late – about highways and automobiles and sprawl and … more →

Tags: Adorno, E-texts, Philosophy of Dwelling, the series, Politics (for when something is off topic but needs to, america, American, countryside, Craft, landscape

Sanctuary and the Modern Metropolis | David Maisel's Aerial Photographs of Sprawl

Shane Waggoner wrote 10 months ago: I’m infatuated with David Maisel’s aerial photographs of sprawl in the Los Angeles metro … more →

Tags: Art, Popular Culture, aerial photographs, David Maisel, infrastructure spending, Los Angeles, Oblivion, Photography, Sanctuary

Infrastructure, Sustainable Spending, and Sprawl

Shane Waggoner wrote 10 months ago: Photographer David Maisel, Los Angeles Dean Baker, econoblogger, makes the following point about the … more →

Tags: Art, Politics (for when something is off topic but needs to, commutes, Commuting, Dean Baker, econoblogger, Economy, Energy, Energy consumption

Kafka's America and Spaces of Hope (Philosophy of Dwelling Series, Part 3)1 comment

Shane Waggoner wrote 10 months ago: I was recently asked to write something (for one of those old school ‘paper’ journals) a … more →

Tags: Adorno, Art, Literature, Philosophy of Dwelling, the series, Popular Culture, Amerika, Benjamin, Blade runner, Great Nature Theater of Oklahoma

Call for Papers: Recreate, Replace, Restore

Shane Waggoner wrote 10 months ago: Check out Ohio Northern University’s call for papers for an upcoming conference on meanings an … more →

Tags: Calls for Papers, Philosophy, Space, place, Call for Papers, Conference, Environments, Meanings, Religion

ReadyMade Magazine's Homage to the WPA3 comments

Shane Waggoner wrote 10 months ago: ReadyMade Magazine is a great concept wasted on hipsters. Fortunately, it seems that the editors hav … more →

Tags: Popular Culture, Art, Depression, readymade, readymade magazine, WPA, hipsters, Hipster, Poster

The Ownership Society: Is Marx Relevant?

Shane Waggoner wrote 10 months ago: This post is firstly part of my effort to respond to the rise in currency of terms like ’socia … more →

Tags: Politics (for when something is off topic but needs to, Philosophy of Dwelling, the series, housing, housing crisis, Dwelling, Adorno, Karl Marx, John Locke, private property

Victor Burgin, "The Separateness of Things"

Shane Waggoner wrote 10 months ago: The Separateness of Things Victor Burgin Some days ago I was working on this presentation when it oc … more →

Tags: Art, E-texts, Philosophy of Dwelling, the series, Popular Culture, capitalism, desire, Edward Hopper, Office at Night, Power

Adorno, Kafka, and the Between Spaces (Part 2)

Shane Waggoner wrote 10 months ago: This is Part 2 of my series on the philosophy of dwelling. In Part 1 I discussed what Theodor Adorno … more →

Tags: Adorno, Literature, Philosophy of Dwelling, the series, Amerika, Dwelling, kafka, Metamorphosis, Nietzsche, Odradek

The Christmas Story as a Dwelling Fable6 comments

Shane Waggoner wrote 11 months ago: It’s the best part of the story: Mary and Joseph have traveled far and need a place to stay. N … more →

Tags: Fishbowl (where I blog about blogging)

Home for Christmas, in Texas8 comments

Shane Waggoner wrote 11 months ago: I’m going home to Texas for Christmas. Yeah, it’s not just an avatar; I’m really f … more →

Tags: Fishbowl (where I blog about blogging), Beerland, Christmas, el cosmico, Home, marfa, river walk, San Antonio, Texas

Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno on the Interior Life and Interior Decorating of the Bourgeoisie 4 comments

Shane Waggoner wrote 11 months ago: In the Arcades Project, Walter Benjamin described ‘traces’ of something primordial in the European b … more →

Tags: Philosophy of Dwelling, the series, Adorno, Benjamin, Dwelling, Philosophy, Walter Benjamin, bourgeoisie, apartment, Karl Marx

Foreword to the new series: 'Philosophy of Dwelling' 1 comment

Shane Waggoner wrote 11 months ago: In a recent post I promised to explore the commodification of dwelling. In that spirit, and in fact … more →

Tags: Philosophy of Dwelling, the series, Adorno, Benjamin, Dwelling, Heidegger, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Cultural Analysis, cultural critic

Designed to Sell (a note to bewildered readers about the changing appearance of this blog)8 comments

Shane Waggoner wrote 11 months ago: I’ve always been cynical about HGTV’s Designed to Sell. I’ve thought that it expos … more →

Tags: Fishbowl (where I blog about blogging), Popular Culture, Designed to Sell, Dwelling, Home, virtual environment, WordPress

Theodor Adorno on the "Annihilation of Dwelling"2 comments

Shane Waggoner wrote 11 months ago: Minima Moralia, Part 1, Aphorism 18 Refuge for the homeless. – How things are going for private life … more →

Tags: Philosophy of Dwelling, the series, E-texts, Adorno, Architecture, Nietzsche, housing, Dwelling, Home, minima moralia


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