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Cahokia, on the other hand, appears to represent a self-conscious effort to turn that style of administrative esoterica into a basis for sovereignty; the gradual transformation of geometric earthworks, designed on cosmic principles, into actual fortifications being only the most obvious indication. In the end it didn’t work. Political power retreated back into heroic theatre, if in a decidedly more violent form. e . e L L B e

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Cahokia, on the other hand, appears to represent a self-conscious effort to turn that style of administrative esoterica into a basis for sovereignty; the gradual transformation of geometric earthworks, designed on cosmic principles, into actual fortifications being only the most obvious indication. In the end it didn’t work. Political power retreated back into heroic theatre, if in a decidedly more violent form. e . e L L B e
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Rasmus Fleischer (rasmusfleischer@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 19:58:56 JST Rasmus Fleischer

"When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king, the palace becomes a circus." (some street art)
Or maybe... the palace is just returning to its original form?
According to some anthropologists, the court essentially began as a circus, a "theatre state" as Clifford Geertz termed it. Which must of course be a very ambigous and possibly terrible thing. I think that Graeber & Wengrow's "The dawn of everything" has some brief but nuanced thoughts on that point.

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