Being unnamed in a place collapses a person’s sense of presence

Evidence

I’m new here too, on this shore at the western edge of the continent, new to how land appears and disappears in this place with the tides and with the fog. No one knows my name here, and I don’t know theirs. Without this exchange of the barest recognition, I feel like I could disappear in the fog along with everything else. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 736

Categorization

• XREF: Directly links to ch6 gift-exchange creating feeling-bonds, and to the Soundscape thread on being heard and named as presence. — connects to: Absence is perceived as vividly as presence against a background field — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 498; The Other’s look makes the self haunt an unreflective consciousness — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 727; Identity gets constituted when the Other’s gaze names it — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 207 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Identity gets constituted when the Other’s gaze names it #expands (0.80) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 207
• Absence is perceived as vividly as presence against a background field #qualifies (0.75) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 498
• The Other’s look makes the self haunt an unreflective consciousness #corroborates (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 727
• Performing identity in public differs from passing by staying contained in public space #qualifies (0.70) — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 949