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Intro to the Metacrisis
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The first topology is a "politics of symmetry" perhaps best exemplified in the modern era by the symmetrical conflicts between the Soviets and the Americans, or earlier between the Allied and Axis powers. But this mode of political conflict was gradually superseded by a second one, in the second half of the twentieth century, which might
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The contemporary Nigerian philosopher Bayo Akomolafe is among those who suggest this is the case: it is in our seeking to escape the prison, he suggests, that the prison walls gain their form.95 If all we do is react to the dominant story, we reinforce its dominance. Perhaps the strategy itself – collision-course, expose-and-attack, hit-them-where-
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The problem with nationalism lies not only in that it limits transcendence and sympathy to the national community but also in that it subordinates or devalues the links between individuals and other expressions of community at scales below and above the nation.20 A program of shared sovereignty – a new universalism – can gain meaning only if it dev
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