fractal border

is a border that is neither completely open nor closed, but both separates and distinguishes, on the one hand, and links and mixes together, on the other.

a (76) 'a border that is neither completely open nor closed, one that both separates and distinguishes, on the one hand, and links and mixes together, on the other. The consequence of such open boundaries-- open not by the decision of national authorities or the actions of armies but by the long-term aftereffects of colonialism itself-- is that each nation's cultural identity is constituted in part by what Balibar calls 'an interior difference' or 'an essential non-contemporaneousness to self' (82).

is open by the long-term aftereffects of colonialism itself (not by authorities) and comes to constitute a cultural identity of non-contemporaneousness to self.

fractal border, n.All

fractal border