Many of us have spent a good deal of time lately reflecting on the confines and transformative possibilities of space. During this global pandemic, our homes have become our workplaces, childcare centers, and virtual doctor’s offices; we have conducted tele-therapy sessions in our bathrooms and turned closets into private offices. Space helps shape what happens within it – it primes us to work or to sleep or to study our reflection in the mirror – and our homes have resisted the sudden imposition of new expectations for work, care, play, and privacy. As Nedra Reynolds asserts, “Homes hold, in fact, many answers to questions about what can happen where” (2007, 154). But neither have our homes been impervious to adaptation. I spent three months engaging in the activities of life while quarantined within an open-plan loft with my partner, cantankerous cat, and 50-pound puppy. The space pressed on...
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September 01 2020
Making Space
Jean Bessette
Journal for the History of Rhetoric (2020) 23 (3): 366–369.
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Jean Bessette; Making Space. Journal for the History of Rhetoric 1 September 2020; 23 (3): 366–369. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/26878003.2020.1815416
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