Re: AUT: Difference of Concept: Empire & Imperialism

[Scott Hamilton <s_h_hamilton@xxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Hardt wrote:

It is a decentered and deterritorializing
> apparatus of rule that progressively incorporates
> the
> entire global realm within its open, expanding
> frontiers....

Yet the attention of the world has been focused, over
the past few months, on a couple of buildings in a
single city in a single country, the United States,
where a handful of people are making decisions which
will have more influence, in the short term at least,
over the future than the actions of billions of other
inhabitants of the globe. The decision to attack is
not being made in Jakarta or Warsaw or even London,
but in Washington DC. In what sense, then, are we
seeing a 'decentred apparatus of rule'? In no sense at
all, I would suggest. The apparatus of rule is no more
being decentred than the nation state called the US is
fading away.

Cheers
Scott





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