Essential reading, by Bhandar and Toscano on Trump’s “real estate ontology”, the end of presumed relations btw sovereignty, territory, and property; and the place of Gaza in this naked imperium https://proteanmag.com/2025/02/27/slumlord-empire/
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“Increasingly driven by dominium, this is an imperium which doesn’t know what to do with arcana. It seems to like its state aggressively shallow, not “deep.” “
“What is clear is that recoiling from the crudity of global politics-as-property-development while pining for the “rules-based international order”—the reflex of the very centrist international elites that primed the world for Trump and his ilk—is an exercise in futility.”
Was discussing the last point over and over again with friends the past few weeks, who are holding on to the liberal reflex in their professional capacity and roles, but it is indelibly over now and futile
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