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Monday, April 9, 2012 - Elephant Butte Lake State Park, Elephant Butte NM

Catchin' Some Rays, White-winged Dove, Paseo del Rio, Elephant Butte NM, April 2, 2012
Catchin' Some Rays, White-winged Dove, Paseo del Rio, Elephant Butte NM, April 2, 2012

Night camp

Site 10 - Paseo del Rio Campground - Elephant Butte Lake State Park, Elephant Butte NM

A Theory of the State

States have a peculiar dual character. They are at the same time forms of institutionalized raiding or extortion, and utopian projects. The first certainly reflects the way states are actually experienced, by any communities that retain some degree of autonomy; the second however is how they tend to appear in the written record.

Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology, David Graeber, pg 65

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