on identities and identifications

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poral mobile home. In combination with the intercity train, which takes me from Leiden to Utrecht at least three times a week, they constitute my mobile house. In this train I choose a specific compartment and a specific seat most of the times. There, I get installed, I switch on my laptop and with a cup of coffee it feels familiar, almost home for the 45 minutes my journey lasts. This feels however a little peculiar. It brings in a way the private sphere into the public. Is it, as Hou Han Rou and Jerome Hans describe it, a transgression of the border between individual homes and the society as a borderless home for all?


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