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interesting responses yesterday...thanks...i'll post a more detailed reply when i have some more time to devote to it....
whatever i will say will presuppose an attitude toward the idea of nation---toward nationalism--at bottom that will shape everything else. if you take seriously the idea of nation as an formation that is like an object, that is determinate, therefore necessary both in itself and as a framework through which you think about collectivitie or communities or identity, then you will think maybe one way about how nationalisms come to define themselves; if you do not see nations in these terms, you will think another. this is the political core of the question.
whatever conversation is either prompted of snuffed out by a more detailed response will turn on this question anyway--it will be the point across whihc positions may be unable to talk in the same register to each other, so i figured i might as well say it up front.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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