The Operating System: An anarchist Theory of the Modern State

Eric Laursen

The Operating System: An anarchist Theory of the Modern State
Format
Paperback
Publisher
AK Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
5 August 2021
Pages
170
ISBN
9781849353878

The Operating System: An anarchist Theory of the Modern State

Eric Laursen

What do we mean when we talk about ‘the State’? Multiple polls show a growing disillusionment with the State and representative government as vehicles for progressive change, and particularly as means to tame capitalism, let alone as a basis for seeing beyond it. In a quick and readable format, Eric Laursen proposes thinking about the State in an entirely new way - not simply as government or legal institutions, but as humanity’s analogue to a computer operating system opening up a new interpretation of the system of governance that emerged in Europe five-hundred years ago and now drives almost every aspect of human society.

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