AT THE ORIGINS OF POLITICS
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NARRATIVE
I: The Great Transformations
1: Coming into Being of Society
2: Invention of Territory
3: Control over Nature
4: Reification of the Word
II: The Axle of Power
5: Threshold to History
6: Nuclear Territorial States
7: Expanded Territorial States
8: Beyond Territorial Base
III: The Explosion of Boundaries
9: Imperial Experiment
10: Invention of Rivers
11: Invention of Steppe
12: A Premature Experiment
IV: The Restructuring on a Regional Basis
13: ‘Mesopotamia’ (Regions)
14: Hegemony & Balances
15: Political Strategies
16: Alternatives to Territorial State
V: The World as a City
17: International Equilibrium
18: The Two Lands
19: Local Autonomies
20: New Modalities
VI: The Extreme Limits of Territoriality
21: Universe of Cities to Universal City
22: Restructuring of Parts
23: Imperial Ideology
24: Consolidation of Epigons
CONCLUSION
25: State As It Unfolds
26: Encounters
NOTES
INTRODUCTION (Preface)
METHOD AND CONTEXT
(Preamble)
I: The Great Transformations
1. The Establishment of Society
2. The Invention of Territory
3. Control over Nature
4. The Reification of the Word
II: The Axle of Power
5. The Outlet into History
6. The Nuclear Territorial States
7. The Expanded Territorial States
8. Impulses Beyond Territorial
III: The Explosion of Boundaries
9. A Jump in Quality
10. The Invention of Rivers
11. The Invention of the Steppe
12. A Premature Experiment
IV: The Restructuring on a Regional Basis
13. 'Mesopotamia' and Its Regions
14. Hegemony and Balances
15. Political Strategies
16. Alternatives to the Territorial
V: The World as a City
17. International Equilibrium
18. The 2 Lands of the 4 Banks
19. Local Autonomies
20. New Modalities
VI: The Extreme Limits of Territoriality
21. Univ. of Cities > Univ. Cities
22. The Restructuring of the Parts
23. Imperial Ideology
24. Consolidation of Epigones
CONCLUSION
25. The State As It Unfolds
26. The Encounter
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I. The Argument / Notes
Notes to Chapter 23. Imperial Ideology
April 2025
23.1 Universalism
23.2 War as a System
23.3 The Vertex of the Design and Its Interlocutors
23.4 The Invention of the World
23.5 The Empire as a Political Concept