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Taming a hybrid: The COVID-19 pandemic

… coronavirus gives a new chance to communism. Slavoj Žižek, Spectator USA, 14/03/2020 In James C. Scott’s telling of the rise of early Neolithic states, sedentism, farming, the domus, irrigation and urbanisation precede the creation of state power. “All of … Continue reading

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The ecology of a virus

What might “collapse” mean, anyway—as in the phrases “the collapse of Ur III,” around 2,000 BCE; “the collapse of the Old Kingdom Egypt,” around 2,100 BCE; “the collapse of the Minoan Palatial Regime” on Crete, around 1,450 BCE? At the … Continue reading

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An anarchism of the vernacular: James C. Scott’s “Two Cheers for Anarchism”

To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it “the way it really was”. … It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger. Walter Benjamin, Thesis on the Philosophy … Continue reading

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