Places That Feel Like A Frontier

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Things Civilization Runs On Without Naming

Things People Forget The Word For

Bleed

Create Distance

Create Thresholds

Cross A Line

Exist Mostly At The Edges

Exist Only Between Two Others

Need Defense

Negotiate

Occupy The Same Space Differently

Organize Conflict

Outlive Explanation

Outlive Intentions

Outlive Their Purpose

Outlive Their Usefulness

Quietly Divide

Repel

Resist Passage

Separate

Separate And Join At Once

Stop You

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is a privileged site inasmuch as it crystallizes both material investments and symbolic stakes. They phenomenally reflect or divulge the nature of various crucial social processes, of their own determinations.

For Balibar, borders present at once privileged sites inasmuch as they crystallize both material investments and symbolic stakes, in other words insofar as they phenomenally reflect or divulge the nature of various crucial social processes, of their own determinations... as well as determinant forces in themselves, constitutive of identities to the extent that borders impose upon their otherwise undefined nature a certain forced definition: 'to define or identify in general is nothing other than to trace a border, to assign boundaries or borders.' (Balibar 2002b, 76).

is not a passive object or an edge... it exerts an active influence.

A border-- the perimeter of a single massive or stretched-out use of territory-- forms the edge of an area of 'ordinary' city. Often borders are thought of as passive objects, or matter-of-factly just as edges. However, a border exerts an active influence. Jane Jacobs

is scratched across the hearts of men by strangers with a calm, judicial pen, and when the borders bleed we watch with dread the lines of ink across the map turn red.

Borders are scratched across the hearts of men By strangers with a calm, judicial pen, And when the borders bleed we watch with dread The lines of ink across the map turn red.

is nearly impossible to convert into a seam.

It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams. Jane Jacobs

is historically youthful. Up until 1914 one did not need a passport for any country except Russia. The European emigrant, if he could scrape together a few pounds for the passage, simply set sail for America or Australia, and when he got there no questions were asked.

In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:... Up to 1914 you did not need a passport for any country except Russia.:... The European emigrant, if he could scrape together a few pounds for the passage, simply set sail for America or Australia, and when he got there no questions were asked.:... In the eighteenth century it had been quite normal and safe to travel in a country with which your own country was at war.

is an imaginary boundary requiring barbed wire and fence sufficient to keep out hardworking economic migrants but porous enough to allow recreational drugs to reach the suburbs.

border, n. An imaginary boundary requiring barbed wire and fence sufficient to keep out hardworking economic migrants but porous enough to allow recreational drugs to reach the suburbs.

 stops the poor from coming in, not the rich from leaving.

Borders stop the poor from coming in, not the rich from leaving.

border, n.Trivia

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