Thanks for a very thought-provoking piece. I was once an Anthropology major and many things you said about a wider definition of cultural events as technologies resonated strongly with me.
For me, I'm going to go in the middle where values and things tend to collide...
In chaos theory, all the mathematically interesting things happen on the razor thin line between two discrete and different sets.
Sigerson
"No pressure, no diamonds." - Thomas Carlyle