A view out is needed by every home, but not primarily for instrumental purposes. The medieval metaphysics of light suggests that we may overstress the importance of information transfer in telematic experience. Certain ideas seem to crystallise with particular and lasting intensity in certain countries. The crystallisation of the Dutch idea of home might be dated to the first three-quarters of the seventeenth century, when the Dutch Netherlands amassed an unprecedented and unrivalled accumulation of capital, and emptied their purses into domestic space. Number Two is the world out there.
Subject is distinguished from object, the self from the other .
After all, it has just had the greatest topological shock it will ever suffer, having burst from the foetal sac into the glare of exteriority. Separating the inside from the outside is a conceptual boundary, a picture-frame, an envelope, a skin. The primary metaphor is that the self's interior is the human body. This conceptual membrane is elastic. A house identified as the self is called home , a country identified as the self is called homeland .