Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. “Beauty and the Street” 1
5. Alice Weldman’s Concerns 5
6. Rethinking Experience 10
7. Struggling Along 17
8. A Critical Phenomenology 24
9. Questions 01 Shelter 27
10. Five Coefficients 39
11. “A Crazy Place to Put Crazy People” 44
12. The Sea of Tranquility 55
13. “Too Much” 58
14. Beautiful Ruins 63
15. Framing the Homeless 65
16. Sensory (Dis)Orientations 68
17. The Walls 73
18. Roots to Earth 75
19. On the Basketball Court 82
20. Smoking and Eating and Talking 87
21. Displacement and Obscurity 95
22. A Physics of Homelessness 102
23. Hearing Voices 105
24. Holding It Together 111
25. Taking Meds 117
26. The Street 120
27. Secondness to Firstness 128
28. Pacing My Mind 137
29. The Give and Take 140
30. Stand Away 151
31. Ragtime 159
32. “Who?-What’s Your Name?” 168
33. “We’re Losing Him, Sam” 172
34. Reasonable Reasonableness 176
35. Tactics, Questions, Rhetoric 183
36. Epistemologies of the Real 189
37. Reactivity 197
38. The Office of Reason 205
39. Figure, Character, Person 209
40. How to Do Things with Feeling 217
41. Architectures of Sense 223
42. Bodies with Organs 228
43. With Your Head Tilted to the Side 235
44. Pacing the Labyrinth 237
45. Appendix: List of Shelter Residents 251
46. Acknowledgments 253
47. Notes 257
48. Bibliography 285
49. Index 303