place v. state

Wilson's discussion of the topographical model versus the economic model of the unsconsious mind was new to me and very helpful in thinking through how I might discuss public space in my research. The idea of something being identifiable both through coordinates (place/topography) and through qualitative register (state/economy) makes sense to me when I approach the fuzzy unconscious as something that can be relayed or interpreted through two instruments at the same time. For example, I can weigh my cat, and I can look at my cat, but my scale and my eyes/brain will return different readings that have their own utilities and contexts of import. Here I am interested in two elements of this concept: simultaneity, and importance. Simultaneity seems to ignore linear or hierarchical order, while the other is dependent on it.