ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that particularly glaring need to consider inconspicuous boundaries that divide, exclude, and demarcate people, patterns, and processes through invisible borders of political, socioeconomic, and technological control. The COVID-19 pandemic has helped shift these invisible borders of technological control from the subject of science fiction into the toolkit of contemporary government policy, and in doing so, blurred the distinctions between public and private spaces, and public health and individual rights to free speech, movement, and privacy. In addition to invisible borders of politics, socioeconomics, and technology, these last examples highlight how the volume's theme could be fruitfully applied to notions of spatial calculation and the environment, as well as the geographies of health, across multiple scales. First published in 1768, Encyclopædia Britannica was a rather ambitious attempt to compile, summarize, and disseminate the accumulated knowledge of humanity across the arts, history, and sciences in the spirit of the Age of Enlightenment.
