ABSTRACT
This chapter is a meditation on the idea of progress and its relation to technology and the nation-state, proposes that late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century values of ‘insurgent life’ and ‘life economies,’ which arose from early anarchism, communism, and socialism, as well as movements like the Arts and Crafts and the Paris Commune, might be employed to rethink the goals not merely of development, but of the nation itself. The nation should build in a drive towards its own obsolescence.
