Borders, limina and unity

December 1st, 2018 by Charles Cameron

can well be expressed in such ways as:

  • Let there be a distinction,

  • Find a distinction,See a distinction,

  • Describe a distinction,

  • Define a distinction,<

    • Or:

  • Let a distinction be drawn.”

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    My own DoubleQuotes format both draws distinctions (being binary) and erases them by asserting parallelisms between them (unifying or uncarving, unmarking them).

    All Spencer Brown quotes above are via Wikipedia.

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    Okay, now there’s news of another diplomatically significant border crossing:

    That’s good — and it gives us yet another DQ:

    Connecting a prosperous free South with a totalitarian North across a border is a liminal matter, and thus inherently sacred — see my post, Liminality II: the serious part

    As we saw with the fall of the Berlin Wall, however, it is possible and maybe Trump and Pompeo — with a little help from Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in? — can pull it off.

    Or maybe, Dennis Rodman?

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    Sources, some of ’em:

  • The Guardian, Railway diplomacy

  • PRI, For some Iranian families separated by the travel ban

  • NYRB, The Map ISIS Hates — hey, this by Malise Ruthven

  • Asia Times, Afghanistan takes center stage

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    Oh, ah, another couple of parallelisms, btw:

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    What’s the cyber border between the US and Russia?

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      December 1st, 2018 at 8:03 pm

      Transboundary crisis:

      Introducing TransCrisis video
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      See also:

      Transboundary crisis management in the European Union: the accountability challenge.

    2. Charles Cameron:

      December 2nd, 2018 at 5:52 am

      Another border matter..

      The literature on the vicissitudes of Trump’s border wall is vast.,.

    3. Charles Cameron:

      December 10th, 2018 at 2:47 am

      Alex Ross, Notable Performances and Recordings of 2018:

      At the beginning of the year, I crossed the U.S.-Mexico border into Tijuana—where thousands of asylum seekers are now encamped—to witness a performance of John Luther Adams’s “Inuksuit,” for mass percussion. Steven Schick and the San Diego Symphony organized a cross-border, multinational ensemble, obtaining last-minute permission from the U.S. Border Patrol. For a mind-bending hour or so, the border disappeared. Read more.
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    4. Charles Cameron:

      December 12th, 2018 at 12:48 am

      Trump’s Reality Show in the Oval Office

      Reporters were stunned as the president invited them to witness talks over something as tenuous as a partial government shutdown. What unfolded before them was a series of interruptions, schoolyard jabs, and cross talk over topics that spanned well beyond appropriations bills. In other words, Trump got his show. But he got no deal.

    5. Charles Cameron:

      December 12th, 2018 at 9:26 pm

      Five Things to Know About Brexit Deal’s Irish Border Issue


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      The EU has insisted on the backstop as an insurance policy in case long-term
      relations between the EU and U.K. would otherwise require Irish border controls.
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      The insurance policy does two things: First, it would keep Northern Ireland inside the EU’s single market for goods and farm products, eliminating the need for any checks to ensure they meet EU standards. Second, the U.K. would stay inside the EU’s customs territory until other ways are found to avoid a border.

    6. Charles Cameron:

      December 16th, 2018 at 5:53 pm


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      https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-30/the-u-s-mexico-border-is-becoming-a-banking-desert:

      Sabrina Hallman’s seed business has operated out of warehouses a short drive from the U.S.-Mexico border since 1989. The Sierra Seed Co., which sells to commercial growers in Mexico, is well-known in her small Arizona town—as is Hallman, a former school principal who took over from her father as chief executive officer in 2007.
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      Three years later her bank was acquired, and its new owners cut off a line of credit her business had depended on for years. The decision was so unusual at the time that it even took Hallman’s local branch by surprise. They advocated to their new bosses on her behalf. “They said, ‘You don’t understand, we know this company. It’s solid,’?” she recalls. But their good word wasn’t enough. The company did business on both sides of the border and therefore posed a money laundering risk the bank wasn’t willing to take. Rather than spend resources vetting and monitoring what it perceived to be a high-risk account—or face enormous fines for failing to do so—Hallman’s company had to go.

    7. Charles Cameron:

      December 16th, 2018 at 6:11 pm