...imagined. It cannot particularise itself because it is not a thing but a mode of connectedness: 'It is imagined as a community, because, regardless of the actual inequality and exploitation which may prevail in each, the nation is always conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship.56 Anderson...

...original1, in his influential work on nationstates as imagined communities, proposes that the state "is imagined as a community, because, regardless of...always conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship." He proceeds: "Ultimately it is this fraternity that makes possible, over the past two centuries, for...

...— coming as they did from a Marxist tradition — Anderson was less than enamored with nationalism. "Regardless of the actual inequality and exploitation that may prevail in each," he wrote, "the nation is always conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship. Ultimately it is this...

...meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion ... it is imagined as a community because, regardless of...always conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship" (6-7). Anderson formulates nationality as a way of linking fraternity, power, and time in reaction...

...irreconcilable tensions between empire and nation. Benedict Anderson has argued that the nation was imagined as a "community," because ' 'regardless of...the nation is always conceived as a deep horizontal comradeship.""9 Yet empire, whose progress and processes played integral roles in defining the British...

...them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion'.29 He understands the nation as community because, 'regardless of the actual inequality...the nation is always conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship'.30 Although he does not mention issues of gender or sexuality in his account, a recent...

...nation imagines itself coterminous with mankind";20 (2) to be sovereign; and (3) to be a community: "Regardless of the actual inequality and exploitation...the nation is always conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship."21 So what is the nature of the online community? First, the economics of online communication...

...community can make marginalized groups venerate the symbol of a nation and fight on its behalf: "[A nation] is imagined as a community, because, regardless...of the actual inequality and exploitation that may 30 Letter from Pickens to Mr. and Mrs. Howard W. Coles of Rochester, New York, 20 September 1943, Pickens...

...it is imagined as community, because, regardless of the actual inequality and exploitation that mav prevail in each, the nation is always conceived as...deep horizontal comradeship. Ultimately it is this fratemity that makes possible, over the past two centuries, for so many millions of people, not so...

...Nation, Class, pp. 49-50. Benedict Anderson has also pointed out the force of these contradictions: the nation "is imagined as a community, because, regardless...always conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship." Anderson, Imagined Communities, p. 16. 43. Balibar and Wallerstein, Race, Nation, Class, p. 50. As...