evolved under the auspices of command. Truth, fiction and the literary are alien in some human formations, although imperialism, colonialism, evangelism, etc., have to a remarkable degree reduced such societies. We might group the movements listed above (imperialism, etc.) in a set of actions:
- explore/discover
- conquer
- convert
- extract
- exploit
We could nominate this set of actions as “The Arc of Civilization.” Further we might see how our topics have been, indeed, are, employed in the process of civilization. Art, vision, topology or mapping, the machine, representation, drama, prediction, imagination, analysis, techne/episteme, tension, spirit-mind-body models, command, true-or-false binaries, social configurations, etc.: all have been (and are) employed by and for the purposes or cause, of Civilization, which is a time-based phenomenon.
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The question of external and internal and by extension, eternal, as types/states, is critically linked in human experience, to the question of true-or-false, and by