#nationstates — Public Fediverse posts
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Tony Blair can’t see that the EU is ancient history
Sir Tony Blair loves the word “modern”. It is oddly unspecific – something modern might be very good…
#Europe #EU #andyburnham #Britain #EuropeanUnion #nationstates #SirTony #theEU #TonyBlair
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So basically we are currently at war - but not so much #nationstates, as #Fascism #oligarchy and rampant #corruption
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So basically we are currently at war - but not so much #nationstates, as #Fascism #oligarchy and rampant #corruption
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So basically we are currently at war - but not so much #nationstates, as #Fascism #oligarchy and rampant #corruption
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So basically we are currently at war - but not so much #nationstates, as #Fascism #oligarchy and rampant #corruption
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https://www.europesays.com/people/169418/ The Nerd Reich: They Built the Apps You Use Every Day – and Now They’re Funding the End of Democracy #AnonymousForum #BalajiSrinivasan #CampaignMoney #CurtisYarvin #Infrastructure #NationStates #NetworkStates #PeterThiel #PoliticalCampaigns
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“We need to think beyond #nation-states and focus on #oligarchs, #mafiosos, and #technofascists, because they are determining the course of the world more than #governments.”
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/post/3mnztzfunjk2l -
TechAptitude tackles the big hairy topic of the intersection of Quantum Technologies and Geo-Politics in this latest post.
Is winning the "Quantum Race" really all that is needed? Check it out! https://open.substack.com/pub/techaptitude/p/quantum-technologies-and-geo-politics?r=vn8b8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true #Quantum #QuantumComputing #QuantumTechnolgogies #QuantumRace #GeoPolitics #GlobalPolitics #NationStates #Collaboration #Competition #NationalSecurity #USA #China #NATO #EU #Cryptography #CyberSecurity #QDay #Security
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TechAptitude tackles the big hairy topic of the intersection of Quantum Technologies and Geo-Politics in this latest post.
Is winning the "Quantum Race" really all that is needed? Check it out! https://open.substack.com/pub/techaptitude/p/quantum-technologies-and-geo-politics?r=vn8b8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true #Quantum #QuantumComputing #QuantumTechnolgogies #QuantumRace #GeoPolitics #GlobalPolitics #NationStates #Collaboration #Competition #NationalSecurity #USA #China #NATO #EU #Cryptography #CyberSecurity #QDay #Security
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TechAptitude tackles the big hairy topic of the intersection of Quantum Technologies and Geo-Politics in this latest post.
Is winning the "Quantum Race" really all that is needed? Check it out! https://open.substack.com/pub/techaptitude/p/quantum-technologies-and-geo-politics?r=vn8b8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true #Quantum #QuantumComputing #QuantumTechnolgogies #QuantumRace #GeoPolitics #GlobalPolitics #NationStates #Collaboration #Competition #NationalSecurity #USA #China #NATO #EU #Cryptography #CyberSecurity #QDay #Security
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TechAptitude tackles the big hairy topic of the intersection of Quantum Technologies and Geo-Politics in this latest post.
Is winning the "Quantum Race" really all that is needed? Check it out! https://open.substack.com/pub/techaptitude/p/quantum-technologies-and-geo-politics?r=vn8b8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true #Quantum #QuantumComputing #QuantumTechnolgogies #QuantumRace #GeoPolitics #GlobalPolitics #NationStates #Collaboration #Competition #NationalSecurity #USA #China #NATO #EU #Cryptography #CyberSecurity #QDay #Security
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Egor Dzhonov of Charkov wins Eurthvision 2026!
https://www.europans.com/topic/8383-eurthvision-song-contest-2026/#findComment-40029683With his song "I'm Left Standing", Egor Dzhonov of Charkov won this year's Eurthvision contest in Centennia Cardina. Lunar Shift of Sunseong came in as a close second. Next year's contest will take place in Charkov.
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#NATIONSTATES aepiot.com/advanced-sea... Semantic BACKLINKS: The Bridge between Humans and AI. NOSTR.com - Snort: snort.social/nprofile1qqs...
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Hey, I don't normally do this - but are you interested in joining a medium sized, chill Discord community where folks chat about everything from NationStates to video games to Warhammer to artwork?
If so, join me at the Augustin Alliance Discord. https://discord.gg/kSqCKwdndC
The name comes from their NationStates' origins, if you've ever played that before.
But yea, feel free to check it out. Cause, you can also chat with me there...
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Hey, I don't normally do this - but are you interested in joining a medium sized, chill Discord community where folks chat about everything from NationStates to video games to Warhammer to artwork?
If so, join me at the Augustin Alliance Discord. https://discord.gg/kSqCKwdndC
The name comes from their NationStates' origins, if you've ever played that before.
But yea, feel free to check it out. Cause, you can also chat with me there...
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Hey, I don't normally do this - but are you interested in joining a medium sized, chill Discord community where folks chat about everything from NationStates to video games to Warhammer to artwork?
If so, join me at the Augustin Alliance Discord. https://discord.gg/kSqCKwdndC
The name comes from their NationStates' origins, if you've ever played that before.
But yea, feel free to check it out. Cause, you can also chat with me there...
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Hey, I don't normally do this - but are you interested in joining a medium sized, chill Discord community where folks chat about everything from NationStates to video games to Warhammer to artwork?
If so, join me at the Augustin Alliance Discord. https://discord.gg/kSqCKwdndC
The name comes from their NationStates' origins, if you've ever played that before.
But yea, feel free to check it out. Cause, you can also chat with me there...
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"The problem, however, is that the nation-state is badly broken and no longer working for average people around the world.
Riven by deepening inequalities in education, opportunity, and income, plundered by powerful oligarchs who extract wealth and then move on, corrupted institutionally and constitutionally, the nation-state is failing badly as a guarantor of individual rights, liberty, and prosperity, writes the British Indian author Rana Dasgupta in his new book, After Nations: The Making and Unmaking of a World Order.
And since Trump and his like-minded nationalists also hate globalism or any idea of international governance that leaves most people—the 99.75 percent of human beings on the planet who live in nation-states—with little to protect them and promote their pursuit of happiness.
The human race today is “politically naked,” concludes Dasgupta, a prominent essayist and novelist, in his compelling and brilliantly researched—if decidedly anti-Western—book.
The “nation-state system falls short of the most commonsensical conceptions of equality and justice,” he writes. “Since nation-states have monopolised our political life, that betrayal is existential: we have nothing else.” As a result, “the sensation of progress” developed over many centuries has been “replaced by the anxiety of futurelessness.”
This foreboding sense of “futurelessness” pervades a slew of new books that document the breakdown both of the international order and the national polities that are supposed to be caretakers of that order—but which are instead faltering or failing themselves."
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/27/book-review-after-nations-dasgupta-westad-prasad-milanovic/
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"The problem, however, is that the nation-state is badly broken and no longer working for average people around the world.
Riven by deepening inequalities in education, opportunity, and income, plundered by powerful oligarchs who extract wealth and then move on, corrupted institutionally and constitutionally, the nation-state is failing badly as a guarantor of individual rights, liberty, and prosperity, writes the British Indian author Rana Dasgupta in his new book, After Nations: The Making and Unmaking of a World Order.
And since Trump and his like-minded nationalists also hate globalism or any idea of international governance that leaves most people—the 99.75 percent of human beings on the planet who live in nation-states—with little to protect them and promote their pursuit of happiness.
The human race today is “politically naked,” concludes Dasgupta, a prominent essayist and novelist, in his compelling and brilliantly researched—if decidedly anti-Western—book.
The “nation-state system falls short of the most commonsensical conceptions of equality and justice,” he writes. “Since nation-states have monopolised our political life, that betrayal is existential: we have nothing else.” As a result, “the sensation of progress” developed over many centuries has been “replaced by the anxiety of futurelessness.”
This foreboding sense of “futurelessness” pervades a slew of new books that document the breakdown both of the international order and the national polities that are supposed to be caretakers of that order—but which are instead faltering or failing themselves."
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/27/book-review-after-nations-dasgupta-westad-prasad-milanovic/
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"The problem, however, is that the nation-state is badly broken and no longer working for average people around the world.
Riven by deepening inequalities in education, opportunity, and income, plundered by powerful oligarchs who extract wealth and then move on, corrupted institutionally and constitutionally, the nation-state is failing badly as a guarantor of individual rights, liberty, and prosperity, writes the British Indian author Rana Dasgupta in his new book, After Nations: The Making and Unmaking of a World Order.
And since Trump and his like-minded nationalists also hate globalism or any idea of international governance that leaves most people—the 99.75 percent of human beings on the planet who live in nation-states—with little to protect them and promote their pursuit of happiness.
The human race today is “politically naked,” concludes Dasgupta, a prominent essayist and novelist, in his compelling and brilliantly researched—if decidedly anti-Western—book.
The “nation-state system falls short of the most commonsensical conceptions of equality and justice,” he writes. “Since nation-states have monopolised our political life, that betrayal is existential: we have nothing else.” As a result, “the sensation of progress” developed over many centuries has been “replaced by the anxiety of futurelessness.”
This foreboding sense of “futurelessness” pervades a slew of new books that document the breakdown both of the international order and the national polities that are supposed to be caretakers of that order—but which are instead faltering or failing themselves."
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/27/book-review-after-nations-dasgupta-westad-prasad-milanovic/
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"The problem, however, is that the nation-state is badly broken and no longer working for average people around the world.
Riven by deepening inequalities in education, opportunity, and income, plundered by powerful oligarchs who extract wealth and then move on, corrupted institutionally and constitutionally, the nation-state is failing badly as a guarantor of individual rights, liberty, and prosperity, writes the British Indian author Rana Dasgupta in his new book, After Nations: The Making and Unmaking of a World Order.
And since Trump and his like-minded nationalists also hate globalism or any idea of international governance that leaves most people—the 99.75 percent of human beings on the planet who live in nation-states—with little to protect them and promote their pursuit of happiness.
The human race today is “politically naked,” concludes Dasgupta, a prominent essayist and novelist, in his compelling and brilliantly researched—if decidedly anti-Western—book.
The “nation-state system falls short of the most commonsensical conceptions of equality and justice,” he writes. “Since nation-states have monopolised our political life, that betrayal is existential: we have nothing else.” As a result, “the sensation of progress” developed over many centuries has been “replaced by the anxiety of futurelessness.”
This foreboding sense of “futurelessness” pervades a slew of new books that document the breakdown both of the international order and the national polities that are supposed to be caretakers of that order—but which are instead faltering or failing themselves."
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/27/book-review-after-nations-dasgupta-westad-prasad-milanovic/
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I'm fairly certain that issue in #NationStates was a reference to that movie twin goes to see sometimes to throw stuff at a screen, but I did not feel like reading something so fucking wordy and skipped it. Sorry twin.
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I'm fairly certain that issue in #NationStates was a reference to that movie twin goes to see sometimes to throw stuff at a screen, but I did not feel like reading something so fucking wordy and skipped it. Sorry twin.
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I'm fairly certain that issue in #NationStates was a reference to that movie twin goes to see sometimes to throw stuff at a screen, but I did not feel like reading something so fucking wordy and skipped it. Sorry twin.
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"Nearly all of us on Earth live within a 'nation-state'. Nation-states are an invisible and seemingly inevitable and eternal part of the infrastructure that forms our society: the water we swim in. Rarely do we pause to consider how this global system of nation-states came into being, and what might replace it after its gone. But as the United States wages a war of aggression on Iran, in a move that will drive up oil prices and the cost of living for ordinary citizens all over the world, the question presents itself anew: who do nation-states serve; what are they for?
On Downstream this week is the author and essayist Rana Dasgupta, whose latest book, ‘After Nations: The Making and Unmaking of a World Order,’ tackles these questions head-on. In conversation with Aaron Bastani, they discuss: What is a nation-state? How did they come to replace the role of religion in the liberal era? Do states need their citizens to have rights? What are the most salient challenges to the nation-state today? And were the gains in workers’ rights of the last century a sign that progress and democracy will triumph in the end, or something more like a historical blip?"
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"Nearly all of us on Earth live within a 'nation-state'. Nation-states are an invisible and seemingly inevitable and eternal part of the infrastructure that forms our society: the water we swim in. Rarely do we pause to consider how this global system of nation-states came into being, and what might replace it after its gone. But as the United States wages a war of aggression on Iran, in a move that will drive up oil prices and the cost of living for ordinary citizens all over the world, the question presents itself anew: who do nation-states serve; what are they for?
On Downstream this week is the author and essayist Rana Dasgupta, whose latest book, ‘After Nations: The Making and Unmaking of a World Order,’ tackles these questions head-on. In conversation with Aaron Bastani, they discuss: What is a nation-state? How did they come to replace the role of religion in the liberal era? Do states need their citizens to have rights? What are the most salient challenges to the nation-state today? And were the gains in workers’ rights of the last century a sign that progress and democracy will triumph in the end, or something more like a historical blip?"
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"Nearly all of us on Earth live within a 'nation-state'. Nation-states are an invisible and seemingly inevitable and eternal part of the infrastructure that forms our society: the water we swim in. Rarely do we pause to consider how this global system of nation-states came into being, and what might replace it after its gone. But as the United States wages a war of aggression on Iran, in a move that will drive up oil prices and the cost of living for ordinary citizens all over the world, the question presents itself anew: who do nation-states serve; what are they for?
On Downstream this week is the author and essayist Rana Dasgupta, whose latest book, ‘After Nations: The Making and Unmaking of a World Order,’ tackles these questions head-on. In conversation with Aaron Bastani, they discuss: What is a nation-state? How did they come to replace the role of religion in the liberal era? Do states need their citizens to have rights? What are the most salient challenges to the nation-state today? And were the gains in workers’ rights of the last century a sign that progress and democracy will triumph in the end, or something more like a historical blip?"
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"Nearly all of us on Earth live within a 'nation-state'. Nation-states are an invisible and seemingly inevitable and eternal part of the infrastructure that forms our society: the water we swim in. Rarely do we pause to consider how this global system of nation-states came into being, and what might replace it after its gone. But as the United States wages a war of aggression on Iran, in a move that will drive up oil prices and the cost of living for ordinary citizens all over the world, the question presents itself anew: who do nation-states serve; what are they for?
On Downstream this week is the author and essayist Rana Dasgupta, whose latest book, ‘After Nations: The Making and Unmaking of a World Order,’ tackles these questions head-on. In conversation with Aaron Bastani, they discuss: What is a nation-state? How did they come to replace the role of religion in the liberal era? Do states need their citizens to have rights? What are the most salient challenges to the nation-state today? And were the gains in workers’ rights of the last century a sign that progress and democracy will triumph in the end, or something more like a historical blip?"
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Wooo #NationStates is back online! Time to have realized I wrote no factbooks! Oops!
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Wooo #NationStates is back online! Time to have realized I wrote no factbooks! Oops!
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Wooo #NationStates is back online! Time to have realized I wrote no factbooks! Oops!
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MMO Business Roundup: Niantic settles class action sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuit - plus news from #Blizzard unionizers, #Ubisoft's crumbling empire, and #NationStates' hack
🔗 https://massivelyop.com/2026/02/03/mmo-business-roundup-niantic-settles-class-action-sexual-harassment-and-discrimination-lawsuit
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MMO Business Roundup: Niantic settles class action sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuit - plus news from #Blizzard unionizers, #Ubisoft's crumbling empire, and #NationStates' hack
🔗 https://massivelyop.com/2026/02/03/mmo-business-roundup-niantic-settles-class-action-sexual-harassment-and-discrimination-lawsuit
#Niantic #PokemonGo -
MMO Business Roundup: Niantic settles class action sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuit - plus news from #Blizzard unionizers, #Ubisoft's crumbling empire, and #NationStates' hack
🔗 https://massivelyop.com/2026/02/03/mmo-business-roundup-niantic-settles-class-action-sexual-harassment-and-discrimination-lawsuit
#Niantic #PokemonGo -
MMO Business Roundup: Niantic settles class action sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuit - plus news from #Blizzard unionizers, #Ubisoft's crumbling empire, and #NationStates' hack
🔗 https://massivelyop.com/2026/02/03/mmo-business-roundup-niantic-settles-class-action-sexual-harassment-and-discrimination-lawsuit
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Anyone out there play #NationStates? I’ve been playing for years at this point but have yet to meet anyone else who does :blobcatgalaxy:
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Anyone out there play #NationStates? I’ve been playing for years at this point but have yet to meet anyone else who does :blobcatgalaxy:
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Anyone out there play #NationStates? I’ve been playing for years at this point but have yet to meet anyone else who does :blobcatgalaxy:
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So #NationStates has zombies for Halloween. A lot of my people are zombies. More are dead. I think they'll just....be...fine...
Regardless, have a zombie piping plover!
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So #NationStates has zombies for Halloween. A lot of my people are zombies. More are dead. I think they'll just....be...fine...
Regardless, have a zombie piping plover!
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So #NationStates has zombies for Halloween. A lot of my people are zombies. More are dead. I think they'll just....be...fine...
Regardless, have a zombie piping plover!
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Every now and then I think about playing #nationstates again, which is a the silly browser based game where you run a country and every decision you make turns extreme and things go comically wrong.
The best part of it is really the roleplaying - because there's not a way for countries to fight with each other, people playing the game just decided to do forum based RPs where they play as characters from their countries, fight wars, and write elaborate guides to their imaginary countries.
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Every now and then I think about playing #nationstates again, which is a the silly browser based game where you run a country and every decision you make turns extreme and things go comically wrong.
The best part of it is really the roleplaying - because there's not a way for countries to fight with each other, people playing the game just decided to do forum based RPs where they play as characters from their countries, fight wars, and write elaborate guides to their imaginary countries.
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Every now and then I think about playing #nationstates again, which is a the silly browser based game where you run a country and every decision you make turns extreme and things go comically wrong.
The best part of it is really the roleplaying - because there's not a way for countries to fight with each other, people playing the game just decided to do forum based RPs where they play as characters from their countries, fight wars, and write elaborate guides to their imaginary countries.
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Every now and then I think about playing #nationstates again, which is a the silly browser based game where you run a country and every decision you make turns extreme and things go comically wrong.
The best part of it is really the roleplaying - because there's not a way for countries to fight with each other, people playing the game just decided to do forum based RPs where they play as characters from their countries, fight wars, and write elaborate guides to their imaginary countries.
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Will Web3 technologies lead to the end of nation-states? https://www.byteseu.com/1384314/ #blockchain #BookReviews #Cryptocurrencies #FreeCities #NationStates #PoliticalScience #Politics #Technology
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A mysterious Chinese AI pentesting tool has appeared online, with over 10,000 downloads so far | TechRadar https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/a-mysterious-chinese-ai-pentesting-tool-has-appeared-online-with-over-10-000-downloads-so-far #Cybersecurity #AI #AIPoweredExploits #RedTeam #ThreatActors #NationStates #Kali #DeepSeek
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A mysterious Chinese AI pentesting tool has appeared online, with over 10,000 downloads so far | TechRadar https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/a-mysterious-chinese-ai-pentesting-tool-has-appeared-online-with-over-10-000-downloads-so-far #Cybersecurity #AI #AIPoweredExploits #RedTeam #ThreatActors #NationStates #Kali #DeepSeek
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A mysterious Chinese AI pentesting tool has appeared online, with over 10,000 downloads so far | TechRadar https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/a-mysterious-chinese-ai-pentesting-tool-has-appeared-online-with-over-10-000-downloads-so-far #Cybersecurity #AI #AIPoweredExploits #RedTeam #ThreatActors #NationStates #Kali #DeepSeek
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"The legal form of the sovereign nation-state and the concepts of contract and private property, as well as their many permutations, have spread across the world during centuries of European imperial dominance. They are neither weak nor manipulable at will. On the contrary, they form a ubiquitous and immensely powerful aspect of the way we are all ruled.
This legal infrastructure remains invulnerable to the standard critique of international law. It consists of many different kinds of law—international and domestic, private and public, formal and informal—that collaborate to reproduce the banal reality of an unjust world outside the spectacle of war and sovereign conflict. Consolidated in the context of state-building, commercial expansion and the ideologies of civilization, modernization and development, they do not form a logical system, nor are they the expression of a single plan. Yet since the 1980s, these laws have operated as largely taken-for-granted aspects of ‘global governance’, enabling powerful actors to make claims about legal rights, powers and privileges to which others have been expected to yield. Globalization has been an intensely legalistic affair. From the organization of government to the most technical rules of consumer protection, from claims of jurisdiction made by states against each other to the rights of identity, contract and property invoked by individuals and corporations, our social lives are framed and pervaded by law. Far from being an infinitely flexible façade, law governs the way we imagine our social relations, and thus defines the character of those relations. Nothing of importance can be accomplished without making claims about legal right, power and privilege."
https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii154/articles/the-laws-that-rule-us
#InternationalLaw #Capitalism #Law #PoliticalEconomy #NationStates #Globalization
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"The legal form of the sovereign nation-state and the concepts of contract and private property, as well as their many permutations, have spread across the world during centuries of European imperial dominance. They are neither weak nor manipulable at will. On the contrary, they form a ubiquitous and immensely powerful aspect of the way we are all ruled.
This legal infrastructure remains invulnerable to the standard critique of international law. It consists of many different kinds of law—international and domestic, private and public, formal and informal—that collaborate to reproduce the banal reality of an unjust world outside the spectacle of war and sovereign conflict. Consolidated in the context of state-building, commercial expansion and the ideologies of civilization, modernization and development, they do not form a logical system, nor are they the expression of a single plan. Yet since the 1980s, these laws have operated as largely taken-for-granted aspects of ‘global governance’, enabling powerful actors to make claims about legal rights, powers and privileges to which others have been expected to yield. Globalization has been an intensely legalistic affair. From the organization of government to the most technical rules of consumer protection, from claims of jurisdiction made by states against each other to the rights of identity, contract and property invoked by individuals and corporations, our social lives are framed and pervaded by law. Far from being an infinitely flexible façade, law governs the way we imagine our social relations, and thus defines the character of those relations. Nothing of importance can be accomplished without making claims about legal right, power and privilege."
https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii154/articles/the-laws-that-rule-us
#InternationalLaw #Capitalism #Law #PoliticalEconomy #NationStates #Globalization
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"The legal form of the sovereign nation-state and the concepts of contract and private property, as well as their many permutations, have spread across the world during centuries of European imperial dominance. They are neither weak nor manipulable at will. On the contrary, they form a ubiquitous and immensely powerful aspect of the way we are all ruled.
This legal infrastructure remains invulnerable to the standard critique of international law. It consists of many different kinds of law—international and domestic, private and public, formal and informal—that collaborate to reproduce the banal reality of an unjust world outside the spectacle of war and sovereign conflict. Consolidated in the context of state-building, commercial expansion and the ideologies of civilization, modernization and development, they do not form a logical system, nor are they the expression of a single plan. Yet since the 1980s, these laws have operated as largely taken-for-granted aspects of ‘global governance’, enabling powerful actors to make claims about legal rights, powers and privileges to which others have been expected to yield. Globalization has been an intensely legalistic affair. From the organization of government to the most technical rules of consumer protection, from claims of jurisdiction made by states against each other to the rights of identity, contract and property invoked by individuals and corporations, our social lives are framed and pervaded by law. Far from being an infinitely flexible façade, law governs the way we imagine our social relations, and thus defines the character of those relations. Nothing of importance can be accomplished without making claims about legal right, power and privilege."
https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii154/articles/the-laws-that-rule-us
#InternationalLaw #Capitalism #Law #PoliticalEconomy #NationStates #Globalization
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"The legal form of the sovereign nation-state and the concepts of contract and private property, as well as their many permutations, have spread across the world during centuries of European imperial dominance. They are neither weak nor manipulable at will. On the contrary, they form a ubiquitous and immensely powerful aspect of the way we are all ruled.
This legal infrastructure remains invulnerable to the standard critique of international law. It consists of many different kinds of law—international and domestic, private and public, formal and informal—that collaborate to reproduce the banal reality of an unjust world outside the spectacle of war and sovereign conflict. Consolidated in the context of state-building, commercial expansion and the ideologies of civilization, modernization and development, they do not form a logical system, nor are they the expression of a single plan. Yet since the 1980s, these laws have operated as largely taken-for-granted aspects of ‘global governance’, enabling powerful actors to make claims about legal rights, powers and privileges to which others have been expected to yield. Globalization has been an intensely legalistic affair. From the organization of government to the most technical rules of consumer protection, from claims of jurisdiction made by states against each other to the rights of identity, contract and property invoked by individuals and corporations, our social lives are framed and pervaded by law. Far from being an infinitely flexible façade, law governs the way we imagine our social relations, and thus defines the character of those relations. Nothing of importance can be accomplished without making claims about legal right, power and privilege."
https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii154/articles/the-laws-that-rule-us
#InternationalLaw #Capitalism #Law #PoliticalEconomy #NationStates #Globalization
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So Eastern Bik Sourgicedka in #NationStates has a new flag and factbook!
Factbook at - https://www.nationstates.net/nation=eastern_bik_sourgicedka/detail=factbook/id=2695942
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So Eastern Bik Sourgicedka in #NationStates has a new flag and factbook!
Factbook at - https://www.nationstates.net/nation=eastern_bik_sourgicedka/detail=factbook/id=2695942
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So Eastern Bik Sourgicedka in #NationStates has a new flag and factbook!
Factbook at - https://www.nationstates.net/nation=eastern_bik_sourgicedka/detail=factbook/id=2695942
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Nation #states are not some natural thing and are a modern invention. They've been #normalised to the point of people just wanting them to be permanent. Many borders themselves are also modern and stem from #coloniality. This is why we want to abolish #nationstates.
It's also very #eurocentric that we should live this way and then be told that the #map given to us drawn by #Europeans, is how we should see and understand the #world. You will get #leftists with knee jerk reactions to this as...
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Nation #states are not some natural thing and are a modern invention. They've been #normalised to the point of people just wanting them to be permanent. Many borders themselves are also modern and stem from #coloniality. This is why we want to abolish #nationstates.
It's also very #eurocentric that we should live this way and then be told that the #map given to us drawn by #Europeans, is how we should see and understand the #world. You will get #leftists with knee jerk reactions to this as...
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Nation #states are not some natural thing and are a modern invention. They've been #normalised to the point of people just wanting them to be permanent. Many borders themselves are also modern and stem from #coloniality. This is why we want to abolish #nationstates.
It's also very #eurocentric that we should live this way and then be told that the #map given to us drawn by #Europeans, is how we should see and understand the #world. You will get #leftists with knee jerk reactions to this as...
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Nation #states are not some natural thing and are a modern invention. They've been #normalised to the point of people just wanting them to be permanent. Many borders themselves are also modern and stem from #coloniality. This is why we want to abolish #nationstates.
It's also very #eurocentric that we should live this way and then be told that the #map given to us drawn by #Europeans, is how we should see and understand the #world. You will get #leftists with knee jerk reactions to this as...