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Abide with Yourself

Will Self advocates the notion of 'abiding' - sitting and whiling away time - in our society of 'seemingly ceaseless motion'.

The philosopher Michel de Certeau characterised space as β€˜the practice of place’,

Will Self argues that, in order to appreciate the places we inhabit, we have to indulge in 'that most unfashionable and unproductive of things: abide".

'To be in a place', he writes, 'is not to be distracted by the possibility of other places, but absorbed by the particularity of the one you're in.'

Producer: Adele Armstrong
Sound: Peter Bosher
Production coordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross
Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith

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Sun 23 Apr 2023 08:48

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