The experience of home shapes our most fundamental conceptual categories

Evidence

The shelter of home is our original way of living in space, Bachelard discovers, shaping not only the existential counterpoint of “home” and “away” but also many of our most fundamental ways of making sense of experience: house and universe, refuge and world, inside and outside, concrete and abstract, being and nonbeing, this and that, here and elsewhere, narrow and vast, depth and immensity, private and public, intimate and distant, self and other. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1522

Categorization

• DEFINE: Home’s shelter generates the foundational binary oppositions—inside/outside, private/public, self/other—through which we make sense of experience.
• XREF: Echoes George Lakoff’s conceptual metaphor theory, where spatial experience grounds abstract thought. — connects to: Perceptual categories are governed by the practical implements surrounding us — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 751; Housework can be experienced as harmony between hand and object; Rooms function as the substantives of architectural language (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Perceptual categories are governed by the practical implements surrounding us #expands (0.80) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 751
• Massive socialization at home arrests consciousness and blocks autonomy’s hidden roots #complicates (0.80) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 851
• Structuralism inverts culturalism’s claim by making experience an effect of categories #contradicts (0.80)
• Housework can be experienced as harmony between hand and object #exemplifies (0.78)
• Concepts shape sensory perception even before direct experience begins #contradicts (0.78)
• Rooms function as the substantives of architectural language #exemplifies (0.75)