Gardening at a Germanese garden
pp. 305-321
in: Gary Backhaus, John Murungi (eds), Symbolic landscapes, Berlin, Springer, 2009Abstrakt
The notion of gardening at a Japanese garden functions as a metaphor for our enactive geography. This chapter illustrates the geographical turn in epistemology and ontology in which a non-substantive geographicity is developed. It captures metaphorically our notion of a non-dualistic, ambiguous field of being, but in a way that deconstructs our residual ways of thinking, which is apropos of the Zen thematic. What is Japanese of a Japanese garden is neither an essence/substance nor a social construction, but rather is a spatialized/spatializing enactment, a participatory process of cultivation—a cultivation of neither self nor garden, but the "spatiating" (the genesis of space) event.