Nick Land's Thoughts on Power

Nick Land has some ideas on what power actually is and what it looks like in the real world. I agree with a good amount of this, but not all of it. Even among pre-civilized social animals, where the temptation to confuse power with force is strongest, the need to demonstrate force is only sporadic. And whoever force is not continuously demonstrated, power has arisen.

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