Arantzazu Martinez

Just as they were drawing their external borders, the recently established states undertook a

concomitant reorganization of their territories in order to confirm their rule upon them, and

this was done through a process of internal division. The emerging administrative grids can be

understood as a form of political rationality aimed at ensuring... See more

Rituals are programs written in the symbolic language of the unconscious mind. Religions are program libraries that share critical subroutines. And the Gods represent subystems in the wetware being programmed. All humans have potential access to pretty much the same major gods because our wetware design is 99% shared.

The Middle Ages, at least as reimagined by the 1960s, offered a pre-capitalist, enchanted world of communes and troubadours. Although we now stereotype the Middle Ages aesthetic as a sort of grey porridge full of nuns, this isn’t accurate. Historian Jacques Le Goff describes “big jewels inserted into the boards of book-bindings, glowing gold... See more

Ultimately, she said, a world made up of atomized, physically isolated people is a world without a true shared reality—which is a recipe for civic disengagement, misinformation, and perhaps even political extremism.

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English,

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a boundary is “a line which marks the limits

of an area; a dividing line” , or “a limit of something abstract, especially a subject or sphere

of activity” . The defnition for border is “a line separating two countries, administrative

divisions, or other areas” , or “the edge or boundary of something,... See more

Zoning is losing its power. New ventures are able to reach a meaningful scale before regulators (and competitors) react. The boundaries between different uses are blurring, with people lodging in apartment buildings, living in hotels, working in restaurants and retail malls, and sleeping or socializing at the office.