a state is not only an instance of a political form. it has other institutional qualities such as legal system, trade relations, statecraft, financial systems, military power. the state is subject to historical forces, and changes character over time
True. I’d forgotten that. I don’t see myself as “Deleuzian”. I just happened to read a book & ideas formed. About 7yrs ago I worked on a project to do with natural disasters & I had this vision of a “walking city” modelled on Pripyat’s evacuated people. Influences my thought now.
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D&G is hippie nonsense imo, but it seems inescapable nowadays
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As with a lot of contemporary French philosophers, they should be read as creative non-fiction not as straight philosophy or political analysis. It’s another way of seeing, and ultimately essential due to the theatrical nature of politics itself.
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