Print capitalism, not industrial production, shaped the first nation-states

Evidence

Capitalism lurked behind these first nationalist revolutions, but not quite in the way that had previously been imagined. Mass commodity printing, rather than coal mines and sugar plantations, shaped our first notion of a “nation-state.” … In what was then called the “Dutch East Indies,” such sedimentation through capitalism’s administrative and print technologies continued “until, like a ripe larva, [the people were] suddenly transmogrified into the spectacular butterfly called ‘Indonesian’” (Anderson 1991, 123, my emphasis). — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 88

Categorization

• XREF: Grounds the book’s core move - extending Anderson’s imagined-community logic from nations to financialized communities - connects to the reader’s own goal of explaining homo speculans as an imagined collectivity. — connects to: Print-capitalism, not colonial administration, made nations imaginable — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 233; Nationalism arises from print capitalism’s imagined communities, not from class or material grievance alone — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 83; Print-capitalism made the nation imaginable through production, technology, and linguistic diversity — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 184 (+10 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Print-capitalism, not colonial administration, made nations imaginable — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 233; Nationalism arises from print capitalism’s imagined communities, not from class or material grievance alone — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 83; Print-capitalism made the nation imaginable through production, technology, and linguistic diversity — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 184 (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• Print-capitalism, not colonial administration, made nations imaginable #expands (0.95) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 233
• Nationalism arises from print capitalism’s imagined communities, not from class or material grievance alone #expands (0.93) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 83
• Writing and printing first served state administration, not literature #complicates (0.74) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 616