(N.B. This entry follows from the previous one, titled: “An Existentialist Approach to Extra-Modern War”) Pierre Clastres states that “primitive societies […] invest themselves totally in their religious and ritual life, which unfolds as a contin­uously repeated affirmation of the communal Self,” and hence that “[e]ach ceremony is a new opportunity to remember that if … Continue reading “We Fight Because We Die” (III): Extra-Modern War and Its Moral Supplement