Remoteness tags: root seed
What is not here? How does the remote imagine us, the people standing in for the local and drawing the line? I am traveling for the most parts, I have traveled from a house to a room, the sense of home contracted from a plot of land to a desk. What travels with me and what stays behind? What remains remote and what gets localised again and again? We can get the easy responses out of the way first. So remoteness is not about coordinates. It is not about centres, peripheries and suburbs. For a mo...