periechon: All I want for Christmas...

12.07.2011

All I want for Christmas...

It's weird if I think that 4000 euro is cheap for a 1630 Gerardus Mercator . . . right? The fact that I'm even posing this question obviously displays that I even think it's weird . . . but if I was self-conscious about being rhetorical then I wouldn't have a blog now, would I? (That's two rhetorical questions in a row, in case you're keeping score at home...oh snap, that's three, because I know you are!) But seriously . . . I would kill (my neighbor's dog) for this (and I like my neighbor's dog).

Santa . . . if you're reading, this is at: www.sanderusmaps.com

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Periechon is a term from classical Greek philosophy, in particular the work of Aristotle. He believed that space was not an empty vacuum, but that it was another medium altogether, something he called periechon - which can loosely be translated to mean "that which surrounds." His was a relational epistemology in which form is not altogether intrinsic to an object, but is given form by that which surrounds it. This concept is appealing to me, as a geographer, because it is a recognition of the how the environment shapes us, shapes our bodies, our minds, and our social relations. On a fundamental level, the concept of periechon provides a framework for examining the complex relationship between us and the world we inhabit.

Whoaa...I really needed a blog so I could have a place to say intense shit like that. So, a lot of what I post on here will consist of geographical theory and philosophy, undoubtedly laced with jargon and the big words I learned in college. But I also want to have a place where I can test out ideas, try and make geography jokes, and repost stuff I find elsewhere - a typically pointless cyber-diary written as a daily personal exposition, but with the secret hope that someday someone will see something in it.