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The city-building in Oath of Fealty mirrors that of High-Rise in that it is home to a self-selected subset of society who have, whether by choice or some sense of necessity, isolated themselves within the boundary walls. By comparison the cities of Caves of Steel and A Torrent of Faces are entirely self-contained if not exactly self-sufficient, with inhabitants having no need to step foot outside. The city-buildings described in these three novels provide a fully bounded vision of the urban environment. They extrapolate the complex social and economic segregation of urban enclaves into concretized boundary walls, and in doing so they provide opportunities for examining the social relations created by such extreme limits to the city.

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Through the contested space of its boundary walls the segregated society in Oath of Fealty remains connected to the world beyond it, and despite the social freedom it supposedly provides it is forced to acknowledge the imagined implications for those outside the boundary walls. In rendering the fundamental notion of the gated community strange through the crucible-mirror of SF this novel, allows this setting to be distinguished and critically considered, demonstrating the critical potential inherent in cognitive estrangement.

This tone of longing for the world beyond, of nostalgia for an apparently lost form of the city, presents one of the few moments of regret voiced by the inhabitants of Todos Santos. It is on the boundary line between inside and out that they are made most tangibly aware of the world outside; and their own loss of freedom to participate and engage with that world. In this way, the boundary acts as a poignant site of tension for those inside, as well as being the space of greatest exposure to threats from the world beyond. Such vistas act as visceral reminders of the extent of their incarceration and what they have given up.

In the course of a career that has spanned from the world of TV comedy, including work on the boundary-pushing series Get a Life and spec scripts for It\u2019s Garry Shandling\u2019s Show and The Larry Sanders Show, to writing critically acclaimed feature films directed by Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, and eventually to full-fledged writer-director status, Charlie Kaufman has often played with the figure of the eccentric, genius male artist. The troubled creative mind is personified in the detestable puppeteer played by John Cusack in Being John Malkovich and given the full arc of middle to old age by Philip Seymour Hoffman\u2019s playwright in Synecdoche, New York. In the writer\u2019s-block comedy Adaptation, Charlie Kaufman himself is the main character, depicted as a neurotic screenwriter given counterpoint by his fictional, carefree brother Donald.

In the biblical account of the Tower of Babel, its builders werepunished for their ambition, which threatened the separation between theterrestrial and the divine by climbing into the heavens. Stripped of theirshared language, the builders turned on each other and dispersed, in a mannerrather less orderly than the Predators' prehistoric human slaves. Forthe builders of Babel, linguistic identity enabled collective action; andlinguistic differences were injected, Stranger-like, as a punishment thatstripped each of them of his or her sociocultural specificity, proliferatingsmaller identity groups incapable of communicating with each other. Thisdivine intervention into human becoming replaces the materiality of languagewith a congeries of idealist langues, each pristine and fully formed outsideof social relations. But as with Murdoch and George (in the more hopefulreading of Possible Worlds), immediately these languages were spoken, whetherto those who could understand or those who could not, they became materialand intersubjective, playing along the boundary between identity anddifference, between self and other, between one alien and another. 350c69d7ab