...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...

...Anderson has written of the "imagined community" of the modern nation as being crucial to its coherence: regardless of the actual inequality and exploitation...always conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship. Ultimately, it is this fraternity that makes it possible, over the past two centuries, for so many...

...it is imagined as community, because, regardless of the actual inequality and exploitation that mav prevail in each, the nation is always conceived as a deep horizontal comradeship. Ultimately it is this fratemity that makes possible, over the past two centuries, for so many millions...

...were destroying the legitimacy of the divinely-ordained, hierarchical dynastic realm . . . Finally, it is imagined as a community, because, regardless of the actual inequality . . . the nation is always conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship. (1983: 16) In the historical...

...hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion."62 He further argues that "it is imagined as a community, because regardless...the nation is always conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship".63 Moreover, it is "this fraternity that makes it possible, over the past two centuries...

...Japan" suggests?is In order to entertain this question, I return to Anderson, who argues: "(The nation] is imagined as a community because, regardless of...always conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship. Ultimately it is this fraternity that makes it possible, over the past two centuries, for so many millions...

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

...corresponds with Benedict Anderson's [l983] observation that nationalist groups imagine themselves as community because "regardless of the actual inequality...always conceived as a deep horizontal comradeship." l4. I discuss CHAMA in Chapter 3, where I describe its conflict with the Movement cohort organization...

...legitimacy of the divinelyordained hierarchical dynastic realm.' * 'It is imagined as a commanity, because, regardless of the actual inequality and exploitation...always conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship.' We should note, following Anderson, that the nation is 'imagined' not 'imaginary'. In his essay, he...