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“Expanding the nomos involves reinitiating the originary, which means the sacred or iterable or commemorable or citational, while also providing the new response to resentment: not a redivision of what is (often by looting certain members of the group or finding some other group to loot—as was the method of Fuller’s “great pirates”) but a creation of more to be shared. This “bourgeois” desire is also sacred, because it is currently the best way we have of deferring the most terrible violence. If our current systems are failing to create a bigger pie so that “equitable” distribution becomes moot, we can at least ask why they are failing and think of ways to improve or replace them. For a while, the main task of politics has been to replace the irreducible and indivisible with the self-regenerating and expansive. Our political leaders have been failing miserably at this, but no one has suggested anything else that doesn’t involve restoring some status quo ante. We have been thinking too narrowly, in terms of reorganizing social orders internally, along “liberal democratic” lines, of course, within their already existing borders. But creating new political demarcations, both in the sense of traditional national boundaries and in the sense of pluralizing jurisdictions, have remained too incompatible with the existing post-WW2 arrangements.”

— Adam Katz, Anthropomorphics · Sep 30, 2025 · Bouvard Substack