How Raw.Space uses some of its words. The meanings shift as the site does.
Arrival
noun, threshold page
The moment of coming into Raw.Space, and the page about it. The site has no single entrance, so arrival can happen anywhere; the page is there for anyone who wants to notice it.
Related: threshold, departure, drift
Carrying
verb and noun, method
What happens when something you met in one place goes with you into another: a phrase, a technique, a way of working. The Carrying method asks whose it is, what you mean to do with it, and what is owed along the way.
commons/methods/carrying-method
Related: crossing, commons, echo
Commons
noun, territory
The territory of shared tools: methods, readings, acknowledgements, and an account of what the site keeps. The methods are offered for use, adaptation and carrying onward; the readings and acknowledgements point to work that informs the site.
commons/methods · commons/bookshelf · commons/hands · commons/trust
Related: carrying, field
Crossing
noun
A piece passing from one of Raw.Space's three languages into another. None of the three is treated as the original, and each piece arrives in the others a little changed.
Related: carrying, field
Departure
noun, threshold page
The moment of leaving, and the page about it. Most departures happen in the middle of a sentence, and nothing has to be summed up at the door; what stays with you does so on its own terms.
Related: arrival, trail
Drift
verb
Moving through Raw.Space by following whatever catches your attention. The site keeps no set order, and the map offers an overview whenever you want to see where you are.
Related: dwell, trail
Dwell
verb
Spending time with a piece, for as long as it holds you. Many pieces open slowly and show more on a second or third visit. One of them, Dwell, remembers in your browser where you stopped.
Related: drift, pulse, fragment
Echo
noun, layer
A piece listed nowhere on the site. Echoes travel between people and turn up where someone passes them on, sometimes changed by the journey.
Related: carrying, crossing
Field
noun, territory
The territory of essays, poems and experimental writing. Some pieces reason their way forward and ask to be followed; others are fragments.
Related: fragment, crossing, commons
Fragment
noun, register
A short piece that works by image and compression more than by argument. Fragments sit in the field beside the essays.
Related: field, dwell
Liminal
adjective
Between one state and another, and fully belonging to neither. Raw.Space keeps returning to such places: a doorway, the dusk, the space between one breath and the next.
Related: threshold, pulse
Pulse
noun, territory
The territory of moving pieces: loops, generative works, interactive and time-based pieces that change while you are with them.
Related: dwell, field
Staying
noun, threshold page
The page for keeping in touch once you have gone, through the letters. It sits in the threshold between arrival and departure.
Related: Unfoldings, threshold
Threshold
noun, territory
The territory for arriving, staying and leaving. It holds the pages that sit between Raw.Space and wherever you came from or are going next. Like every territory, it is one way in among many.
threshold/arrival · threshold/departure · threshold/staying · threshold/trail
Related: liminal, trail, Unfoldings
Trail
noun
The path you leave as you move through Raw.Space. It forms within a single visit, lives only in your own browser, and is cleared when you close the tab. The trail page shows it while it lasts.
Related: drift, departure, Unfoldings
Unfoldings
noun, letters
The letters Raw.Space sends. They keep no schedule; one arrives when there is something worth carrying, and any of them can be answered.
Related: staying, carrying
How do you use these words? What is missing? Suggestions are welcome at hello@raw.space.