Archeology of Violence (Semiotext(e)/Foreign Agents)
By Pierre Clastres.
Description
Clastres's final, posthumous book on the affirmative role of violence in "primitive societies." The war machine is the motor of the social machine; the primitive social being relies entirely on war, primitive society cannot survive without war. The more war there is, the less unification there is, and the best enemy of the State is war. Primitive society is society against the State in that it is society-for-war.―from the Archeology of ViolenceAnthropologist and ethnographer Pierre Clastres was a major influence on Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's Anti-Oedipus,...
ISBN(s)
1584350938, 9781584350934
