A physical elsewhere allows critical distance from a society’s deadly assumptions

Evidence

Elsewhere is that physical or metaphorical place that affords the space to breathe, to refuse adjustment and accommodation to the demands of society, and to live apart, if just for a time, from the deadly assumptions that threaten to smother. Living elsewhere can offer you a moment of rest, to catch your breath and ready yourself to enter the fray once again, not so much whole and healed, but battle-scarred and prepared for yet another round. Seeking an elsewhere affords a different vantage point to assess your commitments and the depth of your loves and hatreds. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again, 399

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the core concept of ‘elsewhere’ — the metaphorical/physical refuge that gives critical distance, which underpins the reader’s explanation of ‘the after times.’
• XREF: connects to: Critical and ideal projection depends on a distance that simulation progressively abolishes. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 394