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The aspiration of such uniformity and order alerts us to the fact that modern statecraft is largely a project of internal colonization, often glossed, as it is in imperial rhetoric, as a "civilizing mission."
— Oct 07, 2024 02:01AM
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Jonathan Vincent
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The modern state, through its officials, attempts with varying success to create a terrain and a population with precisely those standardized characteristics that will be easiest to monitor, count, access, and manage. The utopian, immanent, and continually frustrated goal of the modern state is to reduce the chaotic, disorderly, and constantly changing social reality to match the administrative grid of its observatio
— Oct 07, 2024 01:57AM
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Illegibility has been and remains a reliable source of political autonomy.
— Oct 06, 2024 12:01PM
