Imagined communities
The nation is a limited, sovereign, imagined community, made possible by print-capitalism and reproduced by modular piracy across the world.
Makes the nation an inscribed, emergent social object: the lever of the cultural domain that colonises the political and the economic. Print-capitalism becomes documediality; modular piracy becomes measurable constitutional borrowing.
Chapters and companion operations that rely on this operator are listed from the chapter map. Primary sources are cited in the book; this page does not replace them.