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The term “frontier” is generally taken to mean an area separating two countries, or a territorial limit beyond which lies wilderness. But frontier is also used symbolically to refer to the limit of knowledge and understanding of a particular area, as in “frontiers of science” or in the idea of outer space as the “final frontier.”.
The frontier is a heroic place to take one's stand. On the other hand, the frontier in history, and its image in letters and film, is a concept umbilically attached to Frederick Jackson Turner, a historian half a century dead, whose theories have been savaged and repudiated.
- From Stone Age to Space Age?
- The Other Side of The Frontier
- Panspermia and The Moral Imperative
- Islands of The Interior
- A Thirst For The New
Once upon a time, the story goes, the world was full of space for humans to expand into. The genus Homo radiated out from temperate Africa, colonising the tundras of Ice Age Europe, and the continents and islands of Asia and Australasia. As the climate warmed from 12,000 years ago, populations increased and people with domesticated animals and crop...
What’s often left out of this popular narrative is the perspective of those on the other side of the frontier. Consider colonial expansion from the 15th century onwards, when European nations sent ships to the southern hemisphere in search of new resources. European invaders painted Indigenous people as Stone Age “savages” and cast themselves as th...
Panspermiais the theory that the universe is filled with life. Micro-organisms and pre-biotic molecules travel on comets and asteroids between the worlds, flourishing when and where conditions are right. The expansion of life into every available niche is thought to be a natural process that’s taken place countless times in this, and other, galaxie...
Perhaps the frontiers to be conquered in the 21st century are not spatial, but virtual. Rapid advances in computing technology and data storage have renewed speculation about the idea, so often described in science fiction, of uploading personalitiesinto a digital environment. Here worlds can be tailored to suit individual or collective taste witho...
If crossing frontiers consistently fails to deliver utopia and instead replicates terrestrial inequalities, is there any cause for optimism? People on Earth avidly follow the discovery of expolanets (a planet that orbits a star outside our solar system). Witness the frenzy that accompanied the announcement of the potentially-habitable Proxima bin A...
The Midwest connotes an authentic America whose values are old-fashioned yet conserve their integrity. These are values such as honesty and trust, and even a kind of innocence, which are embodied by Gatsby’s father, Henry C. Gatz. Yet in Jay Gatsby’s eyes his father is a failure.
These examples reveal that one of the most prominent facets of world history is the expansion and interchange of cultural and biological traditions that give rise to “frontier zones” of cultural interchange, accommodation, and conquest.
The Oxford English Dictionary gives the oldest definitions of frontier in English, dating from the fifteenth century, as “the front line or foremost part of an army” and “the part of a country which fronts or faces another country; the marches, the border or extremity conterminous with that of another.”.
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May 11, 2015 · Bringing together diverse examples of bordering and territory-making from peripheral regions of South Asia that are usually treated separately lays bare the limits of the colonial state's power and its ambivalent attitude towards spatial forms and technologies that are conventionally taken to be key foundations of modern states.
