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"the system of the world, then, is not best described by the metaphor of a blueprint, or an organizational chart of political powers, but as a set of inertias, gravities, pressures, and bottlenecks that bound and channel the endless flow of the present: material, money, media, violence, advantage, disadvantage. it is their motion in tome that makes the system of the world..."