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James Wakefield - The Political Theology of Dune

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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The Boss May Not Always Be Right but He's Always the Bosses

I think the way I described it in the essay that this is the section you may be alluding to here is where I was talking about the idea that, you know, the boss may not always be right but he's always the boss. And yeah I think that that is something that runs through a number of these sort of totality well if we can call them sort of totalitarian thinkers and so on. We might sort of agree with him on this up to a point we will at least see what he's getting at here there's this idea that that somehow there are these institutions these ideas that bind us together. The problem comes in when he then says that the state is represented or it's

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