![]() ![]() ![]() It’s actually a bit more nuanced than that: sedentism and domestication apparently occurred thousands of years before the Hobbesian state marshalled its surpluses. Scott, Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (Yale University Press, 2017)įorget the Paleo Diet: Scott goes all the way in showing how early nomadic peoples in the Fertile Crescent were fitter, happier and more productive than the semi-enslaved ziggurat-builders of the ancient Mesopotamian cities. ![]() Scott, Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States, 2017. Cergat writes: ‘The secular digs itself a permanent place between the desert and the deluge at the mouth of the abyss.’ Cergat, Earthmare: The Lost Book of Wars (gnOme, 2017)Ī delirious and unsettling piece of theory-fiction weaving linguistics, theology, eastern Mediterranean history and the ‘violent hybridity’ of the figure of the barbarian. ![]()
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