On Boundaries

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Geography's relation to thinking is much closer than we sometimes would believe. What we traditionally call ‘thinking’ is based on a spatial metaphoric that visualizes thoughts as solid identities related in absolute space, forming regions or fields. Different traditions of thought differ in the way they conceive the line that surrounds them, for example, as a limit, a boundary or a ditch. In the paper the author tries to find out if thinking has to be limited by such lines. In order to do this, the author balances on the boundary, that is, stays in the paradox. If such a meaningless statement can succeed in becoming meaningful movement, thinking could show that, even though it depends on topo-logic, it can in fact exceed it. This may lead in the direction of a different conception of ‘knowledge’ and ‘communication’, a questioning of the idea of an ontology/epistemology, or of politics. They are not fully developed here, but it is presumed that to do this one would need a twofold move: Question the spatial metaphors in which binary oppositions take place to show what is underneath, and, at the same time, trust poetry.

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