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>>Cosmology thus provides a model of disintegration that is remarkable for its extremity.

Our current understanding of cosmology paints a picture of things falling away from each other that is extreme.

>It characterizes pieces that have nothing at all except a shared past in common, propelled into absolute noncommunication.

It is extreme because it depicts an always increasing state of separation that includes not just distance in time and space but also an epistemic distance. An eventual distance from the knowledge of your/our own distance.

>No political conception of separation has ever yet reached this limit.

All extant politics have so far sought to achieve unity of all humanity, or to conserve the current disunity in perpetuity. Land hopes for a politics of extreme distance that mirrors the cosmological model presented above.

Tanith Lee