Świat w naszym domu: przedmioty bliskie z daleka
The World in Our Home: Close Objects from a Distance

Summary/Abstract: The reflections presented in this paper begin with the question of how the terms such as globalization, globality and locality are to be understood. The answer to this question is sought in the home. I look at domestic objects and analyze domestic space; its roles, meanings, and values. I analyze their local character and the way they simultaneously transcend their locality entangling themselves with different distant places. I conclude that locality and globality should be conceived not as actually existing spaces or the ways we interpret phenomena, but as dimensions. Dimensions of objects and the domestic space whose part they are and also the dimensions of other phenomena, such as cities. Taking into account the different dimensions such as locality, relations between cities, nationality, international relations, transcontinentality, globality and interrelations between them allow one to better understand the character of an object, an apartment, a city or any other phenomenon under study.

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