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The Operating System

An anarchist Theory of the Modern State

ISBN-13: 9781849353878

Author(s): Eric Laursen

Subjects: JP

Publisher: Ak Press

Publisher Imprint: Ak Press

Publication Date: 05-08-2021

Format: Paperback / softback

Availability: In stock

£12.00
The Operating System

About the book

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.