[Q]ue lo universal es lo local sin paredes

Manuel Rivas has an interesting take on the supposedly rigid dichotomy between the particular and the universal or the local and the global.  Riffing on Miguel Torga, Rivas asserts that the universal is simply the local without walls (read borderlines).  That readerly interest draws together a series of words and (hypothetical) worlds.

[Q]ue lo universal es lo local sin paredes; y cuando leemos a Rulfo, a Graciliano Ramos, a John Berger, al mundo de Onetti, o de Lezama Lima, o de todos los autores que nos interesan, y vemos precisamente que el lugar en el que escriben, es concreto, es el lugar donde viven, pero es también, es el lugar donde se posa la esfera.

I would also suggest that such a claim also re-evaluates precisely what we consider the borderlines of the local, that is, of a place.  Instead of remaining rigidly inscribed along ethnocentric or geographical lines, the local becomes connected across continents in new formations of alliances...