But for all his religiosity, Erdoğan is arguably more of a nationalist than he is an Islamist: he is too much of a Turkish patriot to subscribe to a pan-Islamist ideology that would dissolve borders of land and ethnicity.
Complex and problematic dimensions that also, in the light of a progressive redefinition of the spaces of the (global) public sphere and of its (dissolved) borders with the private sphere, also have an obvious impact on interpretations, public discourses and hegemonic narratives.
It was never made explicit — the idea of a hard-core version of "Plastic Man" boggles the mind — but there was a polymorphously perverse quality to a character who personified Georges Bataille's notion of the body on the brink of dissolving its borders.
The "digital age" in general is marked by dissolving of borders between various areas: between nation states, national markets, the local and the global, the public and the private, mass communication and interpersonal communication, professional and amateurs, production and consumption, and between different professions [65].
Henderson believes this kind of virtual church service will be the next wave in how believers commune with God, not least because web 2.0 is about dissolving the border between real and virtual.
Glass does not actually dissolve the borders between inside and out.
Arthur Russell didn't dissolve these borders so much as wander past them, humming his own song.
The project's name is taken from an 1856 book by the Parisian photographer and balloonist Nadar, who argued that man's destiny lay in the heavens, and not only would it enable intercontinental travel and communication, it would dissolve international borders and put an end to wars as the petty concerns of nation states fell away beneath the aviators.
As globalization dissolves national borders, the French impulse to remain distinct has increasingly turned to xenophobia.
