{"id":1140,"date":"2026-04-28T04:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T09:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/?p=1140"},"modified":"2026-04-27T19:08:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T00:08:40","slug":"%c2%a7-0-28-cerrarse-sobre-si-mismo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/2026\/04\/28\/%c2%a7-0-28-cerrarse-sobre-si-mismo\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a7\u00a00.28. Closing in on itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph translation-block\">The evolution of the sedentary settlements must have revolved around the topology of domestication, which became the core of sovereignty from which the transformation of the earth (<em>terra<\/em>) into <em>land<\/em> or <em>terrain<\/em> and, later on, into <em>political territory<\/em> began to take place. The habits that later took shape in the royal hunting gardens and parks were at the center of this transformation. In fact, the Greek idea of <em>polis<\/em>, understood not only as \u201ccity\u201d but also as territory and citizenship, expresses the closed structure of the <em>paradeisos<\/em> by elevating a walled citadel (<em>acropolis<\/em>) that serves as the religious and administrative center of the city-state and serves as a watchtower for possible invaders (<a href=\"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/2026\/04\/27\/\u00a7-0-27-paradeisos\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1136\" target=\"_self\">0.27<\/a>). Once the city begins to spread around the walled height\u2014the acropolis of Athens and the Palatine Hill in the case of Rome\u2014the space known as suburb (from latin <em>suburbium<\/em>) arises, which in the originary cities literally referred to what was <em>below the urb<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph translation-block\">From there on the topology of the <em>paradeisos<\/em> is evident in all urban iterations. Indeed, one of the possible etymologies of the Latin <em>urbs<\/em> (walled city) is the proto-Indo-European <em>werb<\/em>, which means \u201cto bend, to turn\u201d and could be interpreted as a closing in on itself. According to linguist Michiel de Vaan, this idea would seem to be confirmed by the Hittite <em>warpa<\/em>, \u201cenclosure,\u201d and the Tocharian A <em>warpi<\/em>, \u201cgarden\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/2025\/12\/11\/0-3-paraiso-paradeisos\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"73\" target=\"_self\">0.3<\/a>). From the <em>domus<\/em> grows the <em>paradeisos<\/em>, its center and originary locus of sovereignty, and around it grows the walled city, which acts as an armor that allows its inhabitants to isolate themselves from alterity, a matter entirely evident until the Middle Ages in the structure of the burgh, the walled city that grew around a castle (from the German <em>burg<\/em>).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La evoluci\u00f3n de los asentamientos sedentarios debi\u00f3 haber girado alrededor de la topolog\u00eda de la domesticaci\u00f3n, que se convirti\u00f3 en el n\u00facleo de la soberan\u00eda desde donde se empez\u00f3 a efectuar la transformaci\u00f3n de tierra en terreno y, m\u00e1s adelante, en territorio pol\u00edtico. En el centro de esta transformaci\u00f3n estaban los h\u00e1bitos que se posteriormente [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":274836558,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[786109366],"tags":[786109386,786109389,786109388,786109378,786109387],"class_list":["post-1140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-umbral","tag-acropolis","tag-burg","tag-castillo","tag-domus","tag-urbe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgYHfz-io","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/274836558"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1140"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1204,"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions\/1204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}