1/ I have been asked to tweetstorm about liminal spaces. Let's do a short one *ahem*
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2/ Some examples of liminal spaces: major life transition moments (graduation, moving to a new country, ends of major projects).
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3/ Liminal spaces are usually liminal times first, though sometimes particular spatial locations can have liminal qualities.
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4/ In Tempo (2011), I defined a liminal passage as a passage between two significant chapters in your inner life
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5/ I have a better definition now: a liminal passage is antianomie. It is triggered by the same conditions but is the opposite reaction
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6/ Where anomie is the anxiety caused by too much or too little structure, liminality is the sense of uncanny caused by the same conditions
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7/ In both reactions, we are suddenly aware of environment as territory rather than map, and experience it as it is rather than as believed
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8/ In anomie we reject territory and seek to return to a map. That's the anxiety. In liminality, we reject the map and seek the territory
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