Everyone is too happy around this guy

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[u/Dr_McPogi]

Look here, guy.... I don't know what liminal means.

[u/Dr_McPogi → u/Dr_McPogi]

And don't tell me to look it up. I did. I still don't know what it means.

[u/sinwarrior → u/Dr_McPogi]

Liminal space usually are space/area/location that people are not meant to stationary/habitats/dwell/linger around. 

Example: on a elevator, escalator, airport, library, underground subway, ferry port, a bus stop, a mall, a pool, a stretch of road, a maze, Etc

As you can infer from the examples above, all these locations all share one thing in common: they are places you're meant traverse/travel by and not stay there. 

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Libraries don’t fit, neither do pools

[u/FellowSaganist → u/peach_trunks]

Get a bigger space?

[u/Azur0007 → u/[deleted]]

You leave your bed too. Liminal doesn't mean "something you leave eventually".

Liminal space is just space thats not a destination but rather a in-between area which you pass through to get somewhere else.

[u/sinwarrior → u/Azur0007]

i did thought of that, but couldnt edit my response cuz i made that reply during break time at work lol.

[u/Civil_Emergency9010 → u/[deleted]]

A library is a place. It is a destination you travel to and interact with. All places you eventually leave until the place where you die.

What you described in your other comment are non-places: areas that is meant to be moved through and not interacted with.

I disagree that liminal spaces are all transitory non-places, although many of them are. I think that liminal spaces are dreamlike and the name comes from the concept of liminal perception, and the way that we sometimes become aware of spaces in our dream and how they are strange and off balance somehow. In that way also many non-places are subliminal when we move through them, especially if they are filled with other people. When they are empty and the subject of a photo it brings them above the threshold to where we notice them, and long hallways disappearing around corners and seemingly going on forever is very dreamlike and disorienting, same when the place seems abandoned but the lights are on, and the lights are old flickering fluorescents when everything is LED now.

When I watched OPs video it also gave me liminal space vibes and I can’t quite identify why. It’s unusual to see a space populated with people and feel like it’s liminal. I definitely think the bare windowless walls are part of it, and maybe the colors. Perhaps it is similar in some way to spaces I experienced as a young child but don’t specifically remember. Someone else commented that it looks a lot like a sports arena, but is just different enough to be uncanny, and I think that must be part it too, especially the wall up against the court where normally bleachers would be.

Anyway, I think both places and non-places can be liminal spaces, even if mostly they are non-places.