Bargaining with Boundaries
The Social Construction of the Emergent Spaces of Antichaos
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The seemingly amorphous form above represents a shapeless geography of letters to someone unfamiliar with the grammatical nuances of the English language. Nevertheless, almost unconsciously, in our search for patterns (of meaningful letters, phrases and familiar symbolism) we organize this jumble, 'pun-chew-ating' it into a more digestible form. In other words, a recognizable order emerges from what appears to be disorder. [...]
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