…ons, the ones made by power pulsing through certain forms or networks in history, that led the Orientalist scholar Karl Wittfogel to his famous “Hydrological Hypothesis” in the last centrury. Ancient agrarian societies – Egypt or China, for instance – developed political orders t...
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… own are not so different. We are in the midst, after all, of a change in our own “technical equipment.” We should read Wittfogel with one eye on our own age, particularly his warnings. “Like the tiger, the engineer of power must have the physical means with which to crush his vi...
that led the Orientalist scholar Karl Wittfogel to his
enduring and largely effective authoritarianism. Wittfogel
…was even more psychologically comfortable since it matched their own experience of being commanded and controlled. Kar] Wittfogel, the historian who identified the water totalitarians of ancient China or Egypt, would have recognized them: Switch Despots! “We had arrived at a conc...