![]() ![]() 2 In like manner are bodies interpreted as "disabled." Average bodies, in need of reassurance as to their sufficiency, construct buildings to keep some people out or severely inconvenienced we construct bodies as "disabled" when we patronize, infantilize, or sanctify people with particular bodies, perpetuating and ultimately sedimenting their "otherness" to our "sameness." Generation after generation, ideologies, practices, and the built environment construct and reconstruct libraries as quiet places. As an example of this complex interplay, libraries are interpreted to be quiet places, thus we build the structure with sound absorbing carpeting and acoustic emendations for sound, but we build them as quiet places as well when we "shush" a person in a neighboring carrel, we glare at those breeching the quiet contract, or finally we see that the unrepentant transgressor is ejected from the place itself, and perhaps forbidden return. We live within and among a series of overlapping places: nation, city, neighborhood, home, and body, whose meanings are formed and reformed at the intersection of ideology, practices, and the built environment. ![]()
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