I Think the State Appears All at Once

The key point that we're ramping up to here, and this will appear again in our discussion about machinic enslavement and social subjection is the kind of state that forms under what they call the archaic imperial a signifier the imperial despot. And i think one of the challenges that i had reading this particular plateau, and you know, it was echoed somewhat amongst adam will and matt, was that there are times where it seems like delusengatari may not be either working with all the facts or playing very fast and loose with the anthropology. But i think they correctly identify some of the logical tendencies that exist with respect to the way that states form. They don't just privilege

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