Physical, virtual, and imagined frontiers
BORDERS: Hybrid Imaginaries / Fractured Geographies
e-misférica / November 2006 / Volume 3.2
“Rather than witnessing the disappearence of borders, we are in fact experiencing their multiplication. New, previously unthinkable, physical, virtual, and imagined frontiers emerge all around us—not only in the Americas, but also in the rest of the world….”
(via criticalspatialpractice)
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NPR: Simulating a Crossing of the U.S.-Mexico Border
“At a park in central Mexico, tourists pay to pretend to be illegal immigrants. They’re taken on an all-night trek through mud, drainage tunnels and cornfields to simulate the experience of illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.”
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us - mexico border survey by William Howard
“This project surveys the visual drama of the border, the way it marks the land, and also the human drama, politics, economics and history embedded in a barrier, the way a person’s geographic position a few yards one way or the other can provide them with a profoundly different life experience.”