Society Against The State
Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour
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Ethnocentric Definitions and the Privilege of Writing
This chapter explores the criticism of defining primitive societies based on their lack compared to modern societies and discusses the relationship between speech and writing. It delves into the overcoding of signs and the province of despotic machines. The chapter also discusses the ethnocentric prejudice towards writing and critiques unconscious ethnocentrism in anthropological discourse.
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