ABSTRACT
The idea of closing emphasises the finite nature of the relations around dwelling. The links that we have out of dwelling are not multiform, permanent or diverse. Dwelling is not linked into a diffuse network or a rhizome as Deleuze and Guattari have suggested. The links that dwelling has are solid, limited and often singular; the culture is particular, specific and evolving but only slowly. The idea of 'roots and ruts' is what best captures this sense of a limited embeddedness: that we are anchored, and have foundations, and that we also travel down well-worn and predictable paths. To close things down, therefore, is to contain them, to limit them, to hold them so that they remain understood, under control and within bounds. The inclusion/exclusion dichotomy identify central to the notion of implacability: it is how the implacability of dwelling makes itself known; it is how it shows itself.
