The space, Ebenstein explained, provides a place for objects that otherwise would have been dropped from the historical record, because they just don't fit in with our contemporary understanding of the world, broken up into specific disciplines and fields of knowledge.
You can't blame Abdullah for wanting to bring the self-empowerment rap to the Paris fashion world and break up the master-slave relationship, which has been going strong for 70 years and has to do with the hierarchy of couture.
"The worst geopolitical development would be for the world to break up once again into rigid bloc systems fortified by a new nuclear arms race," he counsels.
And some of her work, like the top two images below, appropriate the digital aesthetic becoming analog versions of the pixel, taking the essential building block of the virtual realm and transposing it onto the real world, breaking it up into an ill-fitting collage of squares.
Georgia put the weight on, Namibia went backwards and the scrum-half Vasil Lobzhanidze, at 18 the youngest man ever to play in a World Cup, broke up the side and the Namibia defence was all at sea and lucky to survive.
Companies have made it incredibly easy to connect all over the world, but breaking up is still hard to do.
The baseball world is breaking up with Ryan Braun right now, piling on in a major way, and he deserves every bit of it.
Renewed military service during the first world war broke up his studies before he was sent back to Vienna in 1917 to teach a course in meteorology.
Today, even phone calls between neighbors on the far side of the world are broken up into packets that may wind up crossing American territory, albeit at the speed of light, before they get down the block in, say, Baghdad.
And then the Maya world just broke up into regional powers, setting the stage for a period of intensive, petty warfare that finally led to the collapse of the Maya".
