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Opacities: An Introduction
Opacities: An Introduction
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Borders are everywhere and they are not only geographic; they are racial and sexual, epistemic and ontological, religious and aesthetic, linguistic and national. Borders are the interior routes of modernity/coloniality and the consequences of international law and global linear thinking.

Walter D. Mignolo
STS 4301 - Social Studies of Space, Technologies and Borders
by Jess Vanam
34 blocks • about 1 year ago
president tump the artist? christoph büchel petitions for border wall prototypes to become public monument
president tump the artist? christoph bü…
What Are Borders For? | The New Yorker
What Are Borders For? | The New Yorker
“Homes in Rancho Mirage, Calif., in the Coachella Valley,” 2015. Damon Winter.
“Homes in Rancho Mirage, Calif., in the…

“Rather than try to reconstruct the castle, we’re going to turn it into a work of art. To my mind, there’s nothing more mysterious or beautiful than a wall. I can already see it: standing out there in the meadow, rising up like some enormous barrier against time. It will be a memorial to itself, gentlemen, a symphony of resurrected stones, and every day it will sing a dirge for the past we carry within us.”


from Paul Auster, The Music of Chance (1990)

from Paul Auster, The Music of Chance (…
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Mirror Fence, 2003 (refabricated 2014). Alyson Shotz.
Mirror Fence, 2003 (refabricated 2014).…
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