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A relatively straightforward technological innovation -- GPS-equipped free-range cows that can be nudged back within virtual bounds by ear-mounted stimulus-delivery devices -- could profoundly reshape our relationships with domesticated animals, the landscape, and each other.

When European farmers arrived in North America, they claimed it with fences. Fences were the physical manifestation of a belief in private ownership and the proper use of land -- enclosed, utilized, defended -- that continues to shape the American way of life, its economic aspirations, and even its form of government.

Today, fences are the framework through the national landscape is seen, understood, and managed, forming a vast, distributed, and often unquestioned network of wire that somehow defines the "land of the free" while also restricting movement within it.

In the 1870s, the U.S. faced a fence crisis. As settlers ventured away from the coast and into the vast grasslands of the Great Plains, limited supplies of cheap wood meant that split-rail fencing cost more than the land it enclosed. The timely invention of barbed wire in 1874 allowed homesteaders to settle the prairie, transforming its grassland ecology as dramatically as the industrial quantities of corn and cattle being produced and harvested within its newly enclosed pastures redefined the American diet.

In Las Cruces, New Mexico, Venue met with Dean M. Anderson, a USDA scientist whose research into virtual fencing promises equally radical transformation -- this time by removing the mile upon mile of barbed wire stretched across the landscape. As seems to be the case in fencing, a relatively straightforward technological innovation -- GPS-equipped free-range cows that can be nudged back within virtual bounds by ear-mounted stimulus-delivery devices -- has implications that could profoundly reshape our relationships with domesticated animals, each other, and the landscape.

In fact, after our hour-long conversation, it became clear to Venue that Anderson, a soft-spoken federal research scientist who admits to taping a paper list of telephone numbers on the back of his decidedly unsmart phone, keeps exciting if unlikely company with the vanguard of the New Aesthetic, writer and artist James Bridle's term for an emerging way of perceiving (and, in this case, apportioning) digital information under the influence of the various media technologies -- satellite imagery, RFID tags, algorithmic glitches, and so on -- through which we now filter the world.

The Google Maps rainbow plane, an iconic image of the New Aesthetic for the way in which it accidentally captures the hyperspectral oddness of new representational technologies and image-compression algorithms on a product intended for human eyes.

After all, Anderson's directional virtual fencing is nothing less than augmented reality for cattle, a bovine New Aesthetic: the creation of a new layer of perceptual information that can redirect the movement of livestock across remote landscapes in real-time response to lines humans can no longer see. If gathering cows on horseback gave rise to the cowboy narratives of the West, we might ask in this context, what new mythologies might Anderson's satellite-enabled, autonomous gather give rise to?

Our discussion ranged from robotic rats and sheep laterality to the advantages of GPS imprecision and the possibility of high-tech herds bred to suit the topography of particular property. The edited transcript appears below.

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A Palestinian farmer near the fence between Israel and the southern Gaza Strip (Reuters)

The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) has ignored a high court ruling to pull down two illegal fences around settlements in the West Bank which block Palestinian farmers from reaching their own land.

The IDF had vowed to remove the fences after the Palestinian villages of Jaba and Silwad lodged petitions in protest, with the support of human rights group Yesh Din and lawyers Michael Sfard and Shlomi Zacharia. They claimed that illegal fences had been built around the settlements of Adam and Ofra cut off Palestinian farmers' access to their fields.

But Haaretz reports that the IDF, which said it would take down the fences by 2012, has not even started to plan the dismantling.

After the petitions, the Israeli government presented to the high court a plan to build alternative security fences in the area.

"As part of the background work to map the illegal fencing in the Binyamin area and after examining their legality, a draft has been prepared of a comprehensive operational demand with regard to the security of the settlements, intended to regulate the establishment of alternative security components in the hope of limiting damage to private property as much as possible," read a 2011 statement.

It also established a timetable for erection of the new fences "to be carried out at the end of 2012, subject to completion of preparatory work, authorisation and budget". The fences were listed as high priority.

Following the state's resolution, the High Court of Justice cancelled the petitions, assessing the proposal as "sufficient" to solve the problem. However, the IDF did not obtain defence ministry approval of funding to build new fences and did not tell the high court that it would be unable to meet the timetable.

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Payatas demolition leaves 70 families homeless. A demolition crew dismantles roof sheets from a house as police stand guard during a demolition of shanties along Payatas Road in Quezon City on Thursday. An estimated 70 families were affected by the demolition to make way for the expansion of the Payatas Elementary School. Asti Flores

At least 19 families whose houses were demolished in Quezon City's Payatas district Thursday spent the night at the area's covered court, even as demolition teams resumetheir work Friday.

The families were given a choice of relocating to Rodriguez town in Rizal province or to avail of in-city relocation, radio dzBB's Allan Gatus reported.

But the report said many of the families were wary of a supposed P2,500 fee that accompanies the in-city relocation.

Many shanties in the city's Payatas district were demolished on Thursday, but not before a violent confrontation between residents and the demolition team.

Some people were injured while traffic in the area was snarled during the confrontation, though the demolition pushed through.

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