boundaries

doorway

finish line

frontier

hallway

ocean

river

stage

street

threshold

Things That Exist To Be Crossed

boundaries, doorway, finish line, frontier, hallway, ocean, river, stage, street, threshold

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is only the beginning of a whole new race.

is the value of some variable above which there are disastrous effects.

Elster suggests distinguishing among two types of irreversibility. He writes: For this purpose it is useful to have the notion of frontier, the value of some variable above which there are disastrous environmental or social effects. Strong irreversibility then obtains if (i) one can only(in Elster in Douglas 1982:22)

is a space of uncontrolled forces and that which is necessary for the social world.

as a zone of ambivalence. 'a space of uncontrolled forces and that which is necessary for the social world' (Roitman 2005:127)

is a physical as well as a symbolic construction.

Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions Roland Barthes