stadthuis (observable mind)

City Hall of The Hague, Netherlands is located at 52°04'39.5"N 4°19'00.8”E. Central to its modernist style is a vast atrium, several stories high, which, though designed by an American, typifies a mode of contemporary Dutch architecture that is self-conscious in its use of interior space and dramatic contrast in scale. The atrium is in effect its own ecosystem, though one of bureaucracy, waiting, and modes of stillness amidst an intensity of transience and activity. Above all, it is a sonic ecosystem, in which the mind takes pause, considers the steps to becoming, fields the dismantling of its own patterns, and becomes aware of the neuronal gaps that align the material of sentience with its own ghost. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit briancshort.substack.com