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Thingness and Thereness

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For months now, I’ve been thinking about a whole mess of related ideas with the aid of a Penrose triangle visualization of three key, interconnected loci that frame a sort of canvas on which life scripts (whether canned or improvised) play out. The three vertices are home, public and frontier. This is the simplest version of the visualization:

For months now, I've been thinking about a whole mess of related ideas with the aid of a Penrose triangle visualization of three key, interconnected loci that frame a sort of canvas on which life scripts (whether canned or improvised) play out. The three vertices are home, public and frontier . This is the simplest version of the visualization: Discuss with vgr_zirp → Between home and public you find subcultures of being and identity, defined by the question, is that a thing now? Fidget spinners are a thing right now. Gangnam Style was a thing a few years ago. Between home and frontier you fin

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