(The) Unbuilt of the Weak, or, the linguistics of concrete and dust

Abstract

I am on a pilgrimage to the built and unbuilt, a sojourn of contradictions through (to) the contradictory. The strong, built architectural remains fashioned in the late 1800s by the Muslim cameleers—the Indian, Pakistani and Afghani camel drovers—in the inland of Australia are as much in my view as the weak, absent residua of the unbuilt they never fabricated or erected. I search the thought remnants of these explorer–builders, hoping to uncover something more than (the) concrete lees of primitive construction left after makeshift mosques and rural settlements had been deserted or rendered defunct. The tangible frames prompt deliberation on the relationships of (the) language of the weak, the linguistics of concrete(ness), the grammar of architecture, and the definite versus the indefinite.