In a utopian, borderless world without subtitles, the arrival of "Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame" would be a global multiplex event, and the work of its director, Tsui Hark, would be at least as well known among American seekers of cinematic thrills as that of Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay.
However, I suspect the average consumer will think "borderless" borderless, meaning without a border.
The author defines cyberspace as a borderless public space without common rules or government control mechanisms that protect and foster people's activities within that space.
And Huntington had the integrity and the foresight to see the falseness of a borderless world, a world without differences.
And so, in a professedly agenda-free situation, a museum can talk about exploration without mentioning exploitation, address the theme of leisure without bringing servitude into the picture, extol the exploits of Salem's globe-trotting merchant-shoppers without referring to the borderless capitalism and imperialist yearnings they represented.
It's borderless and mystical, leaving readers to journey on without the guiding light of reason and logic, and instead feel their way through.
In The World of Yesterday, Zweig describes the ease of borderless travel prior to 1914 – of visiting India and the US without the need for a passport or visa – a situation inconceivable to the interwar generation.
All the soldiers and intelligence officers in France could not have stopped the attacker getting on that train without foreign cooperation, but threats can move quicker within a borderless EU than the EU can react.
Of course, one of the main features of the Nation is that it's borderless, with all sorts of colonies springing up in enemy territories around North America without permission from local authorities.
As with the euro, borderless travel was pushed ahead by the European Union as an essentially political idea, without Brussels having created the rules and institutions capable of coherently maintaining and enforcing it.
