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The Anthropocene and the State
I'm presuming that Thomas Hobbes is involved in the nature of the state. Am I right or am I wrong? Yeah, so it's actually not a word that exists. So I made it up as I discovered when I Googled it,. It turns out there are no references to it on Google, apart from the lecture I'm giving tonight. The argument with my lecture is if you call it the Anthropocene, it makes it sound like human beings have to change and we're not going to change quick enough. Actually, we should name it after the things that are running the world and we should change them. We need to re-engineer our states, re-
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