... Nations don't trade territory often, but there's no reason why they couldn't, if deeper and more fluid markets were operating.
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Replying to @Outsideness @KalishJantzen
... There's nothing territorially 'fixed' about a state, except through inertia.
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So you basically eject human agents and create an autistic "matrix" of things.
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Human agents are already subsumed into a greater matrix of things -- physical, biological, technological, and commercial -- which selects.
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Cnut the Great tried to explain, but hubristic ultra-humanists don't want to listen.
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This appeal to consequences is just empty. You can't investigate anything because you haven't a clue on anthropology.
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Your obsession with anthropology is entirely circular. "The nature of man is the key to all this -- anthropology says so!"
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I'm perfectly clear the issue is of first principles. You are working in Descartes tradition.
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I'm not remotely in the Cartesian tradition (geometric top-down despotism is your schtick). Scottish Enlightenment all the way.
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You should look at Badiou. Your position and his -- both radically Cartesian -- converge nicely.
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