ABSTRACT
Dwelling is both the performance of a technology – of things working to maintain us – and an act of forgetting. And what we seek to forget is the very technology that performs so much for us. Dwelling is where fantasy and reality intermingle. Dwelling is both the functioning of a series of prosaic entities and a series of aspirations and self-perceptions, which are disconnected from the real world by the very adequacy of the functioning dwelling. The insulation we achieve through dwelling allows us to dream. We may dream of a different dwelling, or that its aspects and relations might be altered in some way; we might dream of matters far beyond the quotidian level on which the dwelling stands.
