BOUNDARY ISSUES are artificial and/or accidental. In the first approximation, boundaries are arbitrary and established by agreement between parts. The most manifest cases for this are nation borders, but other metaphoric boundaries function much the same: representing norms of expression and habits of reception. From a second approximation, boundaries are products of emergence, zones of incident – so is the case with rivers or ethological territories.
Through spatio-temporal dynamisms (erosion, alluvial accretion, migration, extinction), natural boundaries create, when clashing against the other type, war situations where identities and concepts exist following two (or more) distinct states, overlapping and disputing each other’s validity.
On either side of old and new boundaries, as shifting intersections of disorderly Venn diagrams, new basins of conflict are forming. This contested space is a no man’s land that resists colonization, as colonization means the standardization of the landscapes therein.
Soon the maps will be of no use, as territories will no longer respect the laws of great cartographers. Then there should be neither side, but a readiness to begin the world anew that suffers no boundary.