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A philosopher offers a small cluster of provocations that lay out a landscape through which to meander, engaging here with insights, there with complexities, eventually to have carved a pattern of understanding rather than to have simply transitioned from one state to some predetermined goal state.
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My gratitude to my travel companions: Rosalva Resendiz, Cathy Ragland, and Roberto De Souza along the Rio Grande Valley; Elana Zilberg and Stephanie Kane at the Tijuana-San Diego border; Daniel Bhozkov in Venice; Ton Dekker in Amsterdam; Mary Lynn Babcock and Brian O’Connor in Denton, TX. Photographs are made by Irene J. Klaver during these transitions in 2017 and 2018.
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Klaver, I.J. (2018). Trans-Scapes Transitions in Transit. In: Scapp, R., Seitz, B. (eds) Philosophy, Travel, and Place. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98225-0_12
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