Editorial:

The cacophony of change and restructuring in almost every area of life today has made us realize more and more the contingency of human 'design': the precariousness of human cultural world. Cultural
boundaries keep shifting; virtual reality overlaps the actual; the present reconfigures the past; technology shapes more and more our intimate lives,
etc.

Indeed our conventional frameworks are no more sufficient for understanding the rapid change and the overlapping territories. Most of the articles in MELINTAS of this issue talk about the shifting paradigm. Humans as 'Dasein' is viewed as designing-animal, so to say, that the whole
cultural paradigm-shift can also be seen as sort of re-designing our human world. Technoculture also forces us to redefine the so called 'reality' in our
'Lebenswelt'. Technology is becoming more and more a decisive part of our perception. Even our perception of ourselves vis-à-vis strangers is not as clear and definite as it used to be. There is stranger or 'the other' even within ourselves. Hence a new way of conceiving 'boundaries', if at all, while being
more alert to see them as networks of flows.

Editor.