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Space-Place Dichotomy in a Nutshell

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After all, rethinking about everyday life practices happening on common spheres in context of space-place was very challenging. The hidden values that strictly embedded in place is not seen without a purposely structured distance between observer and event. That kind of distant-alienation is instantaneous and fading by time until next recall. Now, I am going to try to explain some of my thoughts that appear based on intuition about space practices in Turkey. Well, there is 2 topics that I would like to discuss about: - Generally, conceptualization processes praxis on academia and its power to explain lived world. - Personnel public place experiences/observations and lessons-learned from *** We may assume that each concept is not strong enough when it is possible to use one instead of the other. It is a general argument but I am particularly talking about space-place dichotomy. After a class I kept reading on this division but unfortunately I have not been getting clear and hopefull...

Spatial Dimension of Embodied Experiences

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What I will write on this essay may seem a little dispersed. I hope I can do it without much scatter. I have always been interested in contemporary philosophy and therefore I was familiar with the concept of the phenomenological perspective , but it made me realize that I did not know anything about its application in the social sciences. I am happy that the possibility has appear to base my knowledge on a method. In order to explain “things” it is useful to abstract them from the meaning additions to which they are interbedded. I will read more about this. I remember that I quietly whisper to myself as “what a waste of energy and time” when someone mentioned about the Kula Ring case in the first time for me. When I looked from the world of meaning I was a part of, I underestimated their compeller efforts for worthless objects (seashells, etc.). However, when I look now, the metaphysical essence that I see in the sources of our own values is actually not that different from that of the...