Jiang argues that nation-states do not make sense because they classify people by race and language and impose artificial borders, a logic he says has led to catastrophes such as the world wars.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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"...people according to the race their language and to impose artificial borders around the world and it's led to silly things like world wars..."
"...never showed with all of Ethiopia or all the land that borders the Red Sea. So many such malignant pestilences among this cool and..."
"...the plot line okay this you know very bourgeoisie woman she's border she's bored she reads these romance novels and that's why she starts..."
"Canto 15. Now one of the hard borders bears us forward. The river mist forms shadows overhead and shields the shores in water from..."
"...squalid beast lie on the margin of stone that serves as border for the sand. And all his tail was quivering in the void..."
"...let us go cain with his thorns already is at the border of both hemispheres and there below sevilla torches touches the sea last..."
"...near Cronera, a narrow scull that closes Italy and bathes its borders. The sepulchres make all the plain uneven, so they did here on..."
"...declare subsisto. In his eternity outside of time, beyond all other borders, as pleased him, eternal love opened into new loves. Nor did he..."
"more the bird of god remained near europe's borders close to the peaks from which it first emerged beneath the shadow of the sacred..."
"...Seoul. Okay? You can see how close Seoul is to the border. So, all North Korea has to do is tell the Koreans, you..."
"...the country. But if you go to the borderlands, okay, the border areas, it's primarily ethnic minorities. And there are two ethnic minorities in..."
"...is the issue, of course, of the attack on the Circassian border. global trade, where a counter to America's naval blockade is by creating..."
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