So began the tale of Alice in Wonderland. We too have a tale of whimsy to recount, of a globe bursting at its seams after puffing itself to the size of the earth. Serves you right, so much hot air is not good for your stomach. Yesterday, I wrote about how space needs to loosen history’s grip on the globe. They live in two different orders of reality: the earth is a concrete spatial entity while the globe is an abstraction, the context against which another abstraction - “human” - is narrated. Space has been leached away from both at once. The de-spatialization of the human happens through the isolation of a human essence - what’s often called ‘human nature’ these days - which is classified in one of two buckets:
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So began the tale of Alice in Wonderland. We too have a tale of whimsy to recount, of a globe bursting at its seams after puffing itself to the size of the earth. Serves you right, so much hot air is not good for your stomach. Yesterday, I wrote about how space needs to loosen history’s grip on the globe. They live in two different orders of reality: the earth is a concrete spatial entity while the globe is an abstraction, the context against which another abstraction - “human” - is narrated. Space has been leached away from both at once. The de-spatialization of the human happens through the isolation of a human essence - what’s often called ‘human nature’ these days - which is classified in one of two buckets: