Rethinking the State

[Monroe, Dave]

>From Pierre Bourdieu, "Rethinking the State: Genesis and Structure of the Bureaucratic Field," trans. Loic J.D. Wacquant and Samar Farage, Sociological Theory, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Mar., 1994), pp. 1-18 ...

"There is no more potent tool for rupture than the reconstruction of genesis: by bringing back into view the conflicts and confrontations of the early beginings and therefor all the discarded possibles, it retrieves the possibility that things could have been (and still could be) otherwise.  And, through such a practical utopia, it questions the 'possible' which, among all others, was actualized."

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0735-2751(199403)12%3A1%3C1%3ARTSGAS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-J 

http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?book_id=%203363%20

Cf., e.g., ...

  "Could he have been the fork in the road America never took, the singular point she jumped the wrong way from? Suppose the Slothropite heresy had had the time to consolidate and prosper? Might there have been fewer crimes in the name of Jesus, and more mercy in the name of Judas Iscariot? It seems to Tyrone Slothrop that there might be a route back ..." (GR, Pt. II, p. 556)

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/3928/pns554.html

U.s.w., et soforthiam ...