Tag Archives: James C. Scott

Rodrigo Karmy Bolton: The law of fire

Posted on February 4, 2026 by Julius Gavroche

From Ficción de la razón (21/01/2026) 1. In a short text dedicated to his daughter Anima entitled Land and Sea, the German jurist Carl Schmitt proposed the term nomos of the land to refer to the “original appropriation of space” … Continue reading →

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For James C. Scott (1936-2024)

Posted on July 24, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

… state-ness is not a binary, where something is a state or not a state, but it’s a continuum. So, things that are more a state or less a state. […] My argument would be that when the state has … Continue reading →

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Taming a hybrid: The COVID-19 pandemic

Posted on March 15, 2020 by Julius Gavroche

… 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

Posted on March 13, 2020 by Julius Gavroche

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”

Posted on May 3, 2014 by Julius Gavroche

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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