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The Encrypted State : Delusion and Displacement in the Peruvian Andes, Hardback Book

The Encrypted State : Delusion and Displacement in the Peruvian Andes Hardback

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What happens when a seemingly rational state becomes paranoid and delusional?

The Encrypted State engages in a close analysis of political disorder to shed new light on the concept of political stability.

The book focuses on a crisis of rule in mid-20th-century Peru, a period when officials believed they had lost the ability to govern and communicated in secret code to protect themselves from imaginary subversives.

The Encrypted State engages the notion of sacropolitics-the politics of mass group sacrifice-to make sense of state delusion.

Nugent interrogates the forces that variously enable or disable organized political subjection, and the role of state structures in this process.

Investigating the role of everyday cultural practices and how affect and imagination structure political affairs, Nugent provides a greater understanding of the conditions of state formation, and failure.

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