Surfing the Tsunami
now if the world is changing as radically as it seems (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g), then we need to step back and find a vocabulary that allows us to identify the patterns of change, so we can delineate and delimit its trajectory. Analyzing the metaphorical grammar of historical societies (the body, the contract, the network) allows such an “astronautical” perspective.