ANTC32H3 Lecture Notes - Commodity Fetishism, Biopolitics, Positive Force
Document Summary
We have to unpack how some things that we value in the world has to do with us. It is no accident how power became the core of what state is. This is critical why we have states and why states are bad. Creation of problem and saying that you need a protection. Where does problem come from and what tilly adds to the question of legitimacy is that the violence is hard to think of just cultural thing. No war, no state: if we look back in european history, people didn"t say let"s make state and started taxing people. They instead started wanted to control territory to acquire wealth. Just seize them (kill the king and take his stuff) Convince or coerce those who have resources to hand them over to you: tilly says the last one is the best one in terms of making the machines.
