Transcendental Power Exist In Empire

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Before Empire, transcendental power delivered the legitimacy of the state but this transcendental fiction of politics cannot maintain anymore in Empire because subjectivity exists inside of Empire. This is linked to the discussion that we talked before regarding the idea of inside and outside of Empire that Empire does not have boundary because outside is not exist, so subjectivity is in inside. Even though the political exists outside measure where power cannot calculate and order production at a global level, the construction of value takes place beyond measure which means the new place in the non-place where the productive activity autonomously occurs without any external regime of measure. This also implies a virtuality that invests the

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