"Thinking the Interior"

The above is the title of one of the chapters in Sloterdijk's Bubbles. The thick, as well as dense, book is proving a wonderful expansive lesson in philosophy. As I photograph exteriors like these I cannot help thinking about spatial divisons, the geometric fragmentation of our physical social space, and then, paradoxically, the meaning and purpose of the interior space. On that topic, this chapter says:

"Humans are beings that participate in spaces unknown to physics: the formulation of this axiom enabled the development of a modern psychological typology that scattered humans--without regard for their first self-localizations--among radically different places, conscious and unconscious, day-like and nightly, honorable and scandalous, places that belong to the ego and places where inner others have set up camp. What lends modern psychological knowledge its strength and autonomy is that it has shifted the human position beyond the reach of geometry and registration offices. Psychological investigations have responded to the question of where a subject is located with answers that belie physical and civil appearances. Only the bodies of the dead can be localized unambiguously..." (87).