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Border incidence.(Critical essay)

In his informative Frontieres de France, true to a Gallic tradition that draws universal facts from local fields of inquiry, Daniel Nordman offers four or five reflections about the nature of a border. Once drawn, a border distinguishes extension--understood in the Cartesian tradition of an infinite res extensa--from space. Extension, an "indifferent spatiality," is not marked by "a town, a city, a forest, but by disembodied points without dimension, each similar to the others, that can be infinitely reproduced, and for which each is the center of infinite directions" (512). (1) Its "smooth texture of points" becomes "spatialized" when forms endowed with dimensions are located ...

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