borderlandia


territory
January 31, 2008, 12:37 pm
Filed under: border, history, image, territory, theory, Uncategorized | Tags: , , ,

“The use of territory always becomes a simulacrum, a symbol of behavior, and of a culture which sustains it…”

Gianni Pettena, “From the Revisited Desert to the Invisible City”

la frontera/the border is a historical composite, divided (shared and partaged), like territory itself, between the two countries, between their respective codes and imaginaries. thus, it is necessary to revise conceptual or descriptive elaborations of the concept in both its mexican and american versions, in order to trace origins and source perceptions.

the base notions for la frontera/the border are el norte and the frontier


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