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Ingham [...] says there are three main ways the state interacts with "the economy," and, although they are not so easily separated, the distinctions are useful. They are:

1. State provision/production of social peace;
2. State maintenance of capitalist social relations (often via "liberal democ…

This is not to say that the coercive part goes away. You might think, quite reasonably, that since coercion is always hovering in the background, the consent part is a bit of a joke: if you don't consent, you get coerced, meaning the consent is not all that consensual. At the level of the isolated …

When we think of state power over territory, we think precisely of what defines the state as the state. In sociologist Max Weber's classic definition, the state is that set of institutions which enjoys "the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory." This power is co…

This time, something different happens, though. It's the day-dreaming that does it. I'm doing the usual thing--imagining in tiny detail the entire course of the relationship, from first kiss, to bed, to moving in together, to getting married (in the past I have even organized the track listing of t…

'Who's it for?' Laura asks when she sees me fiddling around with fades and running orders and levels.

'Oh, just that woman who interviewed me for the free paper. Carol? Caroline? Something like that. She said it would be easier, you know, if she had a feel for the kind of music we play.' But I c…