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Benedict Anderson

Jiang uses Benedict Anderson to argue that print capitalism and communications technology turn linguistic diversity into national language, enabling people to imagine shared history and culture.

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Jiang uses Benedict Anderson to argue that print capitalism and communications technology turn linguistic diversity into national language, enabling people to imagine shared history and culture.

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The Nation Is The New God

2025-06-05, day precision · Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State

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"And he explains. What made the new communities imaginable was a half notorious, but explosive interaction between a system of production and productive relations,..."

The Nation Is The New God

2025-06-05, day precision · Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State

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"History, it's all just made up. There's something real in it. Okay? And because of this, it's destroyed linguistic diversity. So if you were..."

The Nation Is The New God

2025-06-05, day precision · Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State

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"...that guaranteed individual rights. All right. This is Imagine Communities. By Benedict. Anderson. And again, he goes into why the nation state was born..."

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