night spaces

Concept
& theory

Bio on R.
Williams

Welcome

Night is more than what meets the senses. It is also more than the absence or negation of day. Night is a social product mediated by social relationships and practices, material, discursive, and otherwise. Indeed, night is more than a time of day. It is also a space—or more appropriately, spaces—in which we live, love, and work.

Night is expressed culturally in often contradictory products. Stories, myths, literatures, and ideologies are filled with references to night: night as a time of repose with its conventional places for leisure and sleep; and night as a time of danger, even horror, with the darkness shrouding the "Reason" which emanates from the human use, and perhaps (hyper-)emphasis, on visuality.

This site will contain details, info, and sundry material on topics pertaining to night spaces. For now, a description of night spaces and their dynamics is located on the Concept-&-theory page. My academic background, as well as work I have published in this area, can be found on the Bio-on-R.-Williams page.


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