Absorb A Blow

Collect Around Failure

Conceal

Create Forgetting

Create Friction

Create Friction Across Generations

Create Longing

Create Oblivion

Create Resistance

Decrease Resolution

Don’t Care About You

End A Friendship

Forget

Gather Around Failure

Go Red And Quiet

Increase Friction

Make Absence Visible

Make Coordination Difficult

Measure

Melt

Punish Scale

Quietly Shape Decisions

Resist Attachment

Resist Passage

Reward Absence

Reward Emptiness

Separate

Shrink With Distance

Slow Trust

Swallow The Light

Things You Only Notice When They're Gone

distance

Africa

geography

Maine

state (U.S. states)

trivia

space

Cool Comparisons

sneezing

astronomy

earth

moon

rejection

airplane

flight

is a form (true of both space and time) which decreases the size of things, contracts them and makes their defects and deficiencies disappear.

Distance in space decreases the size of things, for it contracts them and so makes their defects and deficiencies disappear. This is why everything looks so much finer in a contracting mirror or in a camera obscura than it is in reality... and the past is affected in the same wa in the course of time. The scenes and events that happened long ago, as well as the persons who took part in them, become a delight to the memory, which ignores everything that is immaterial and disagreeable. The present possesses no such advantage... it always seems to be defective. And in space, small objects near at hand appear to be big, and if they are very near, they cover the whole of our field of vision... but as soon as we stand some little distance away they become minute an finally invisible. And so it is with time: the little affairs and misfortunes of everyday life excite in us emotion, anxiety, vexation, passion, for so long as they are quite near us, they appear big, important, and considerable... but as soon as the inexhaustible stream of time has carried them into the distance they become unimportant... they are not worth remembering and are soon forgotten, because their importance merely consisted in being near. (Schopenhauer 'essays' 'psychological observations' 89)

is able to turn everything into poetry... distant mountains, distant people, distant events... all become romantic.

Everything at a distance turns into poetry... distant mountains, distant people, distant events... all become Romantic. Novalis

is between them like a desert, or an unswimmable body of water.

The distance between them is like a desert, or an unswimmable body of water

is necessarily such that any attempt at proximity quite crucially takes distance as its precondition: It is the distance of persons as distinct from one another that allows us to place ourselves within another's experience.

any attempt at proximity quite crucially takes distance as its precondition: it is the distance of persons as distinct from one another that allows us to place ourselves within another's experience. Proximity would be impossible in the absence of distance, because then the experiencer and the experienced would conflate, would become one, thereby making experience of the other impossible. Thus, what anthropology is in search of is not an experience of truly radical proximity, but a type of experience that puts us in contact with others and yet separates us from them, keeping us at a distance. And there is, of course, such an experience, an experience that is grounded in 'the having at a distance' of vision.'

is intricately tied up with dasein and is not estimated quantitatively as the distance between things but in everyday terms: 'a good walk' 'a stones throw' 'as long as it takes to smoke a pipe'.

1. Entfernung pertains to the distance of things from Dasein, not the distance between things, Abstand. 2. Distances from Dasein are, unlike an Abstand, estimated not in quantitative but everyday terms: 'to go over yonder is 'a good walk', 'a stone's throw', 'as long as it takes to smoke a pipe'' (BT, 105). (inwood 'heidegger' 199)

is intricately tied up with appropriateness. Paradoxically, for that which is too close, we can only bring it closer to us by pushing it away to an appropriate distance.

If something is too close, then we cannot deal with it... it is in a way too far. So removing something to an appropriate distance, Entfernung, is also bringing it close enough to handle, Entfernung. (inwood hiedegger dictionary) . . . This is a fundamental task that appears to move in the realm of what is most self-evident and closest to us, but this realm of what is closest to us is in fact what is least uncovered for us. This reality has been forgotten due to the sediment of traditional modes of questioning. That is why we will begin with certain faulty interpretations in order to arrive at a genuine interpretation. (heidegger 'struggle' : 162)

distance, n.All

distance