“You need the physical space in order to have the virtual space. A whole structure has to be in place physically for me to be able to dwell in that virtuality, and at the same time that virtuality is a space in which I can distance myself from that physical reality and alienate myself from it and even become aggressive with respect to it. That’s the dilemma of the modern state. On the one hand that globalizing movement and those identities that are no longer tied to the state, and yet that necessity of the physical organization for which you need a physical community.”

Ad Verbrugge, philosopher and author of Tijd van Onbehagen

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