{"id":6242,"date":"2012-04-02T21:15:21","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T04:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=6242"},"modified":"2012-04-02T21:15:21","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T04:15:21","slug":"the-vessel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2012\/04\/02\/the-vessel\/","title":{"rendered":"the vessel of exploration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Europeans and their former subjects, the making of planet Earth \u2013 a process better known as globalization \u2013 begins after the Renaissance, as newly empowered groups embrace the idea that, contra the Church, the world is both knowable and mostly unknown.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/HerodotusMap.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"HerodotusMap\" width=\"450\" height=\"281\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6266\" \/><br \/><small><em>before<\/em><\/small><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The frontier \u2013\u00a0the unsettled terrain \u2013\u00a0is thus not just an economic and political prize but also, importantly, a stage for intellectual and spiritual advancement. To travel to distant lands is to make the world known. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Carta-del-Mundo-de-Mercator-1569.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Carta-del-Mundo-de-Mercator-1569\" width=\"450\" height=\"285\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6259\" \/><br \/><small><em>after<\/em><\/small><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The system which emerges, beginning with the colonization of the Americas and ending with the Cold War, is the largest <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cosmos\">cosmos<\/a> to date; so ubiquitous, it is capable of viewing itself from orbit.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Blue_Marble\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/AS17-148-22727_lrg1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"AS17-148-22727_lrg\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6258\" \/><\/a><br \/><small><em>hello, world<\/em><\/small><\/center><\/p>\n<p>A new self-image, a more unified self is the destination of every figurative voyage. Thus, the lore of the traveler is that of self-discovery. In such representations, any vessel is a means to a psychological end.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/s-HAL-9000-is-about-to-get-his-hard-drive-fried-by-a-seriously-pissed-off-Dave.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"s-HAL-9000-is-about-to-get-his-hard-drive-fried-by-a-seriously-pissed-off-Dave\" width=\"450\" height=\"386\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6283\" \/><br \/><small><em>hello, ego<\/em><\/small><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The more perfect of these vessels are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2011\/jun\/15\/first-direct-translation-solaris\">mirror-like<\/a>. Such reflective ships move the traveler, inwardly. To a world always in creation, one that can never be fully known. <\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tibetanMandala.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tibetanMandala.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"tibetanMandala\" width=\"409\" height=\"254\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6419\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Europeans and their former subjects, the making of planet Earth \u2013 a process better known as globalization \u2013 begins after the Renaissance, as newly empowered groups embrace the idea that, contra the Church, the world is both knowable and mostly unknown. before The frontier \u2013\u00a0the unsettled terrain \u2013\u00a0is thus not just an economic and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,5,10,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}