Waste as the excess of a production process must either be contained or disposed of. These involve either spatial control or dissipation over time. The two different methods are exclusive of eath other but will also involve unpredictable turbulance and change when they overlap.

 
A Clockwork Orange is a movie that was prescient in how it described the rise of youth gangs. These gangs existed at the time the movie was made but appeared to be ignored during the counterculture of the 1960's. It shows that not only is there nihilism in youth which can result in crime if not used for creative purposes, but that the authorities are incapable of fixing the problem without causing repression.

 
Ernesto Laclau has proposed that class formation is inherently based on antagonism. A class is united by what it is in opposition to. This creates a distinction of differences and equivalences where meaning requires the connections of equivalences, and the difference of that which is excluded from the system of meaning. The line of antagonism, in meaning and class, is between that which is the absolute same and the absolute different.

 
Claude Lefort put forth the idea that the state as a collective of people attempts to create an identity of itself. Under sovereignty, the sovereign contained this collective identity, but with the decline in sovereignty there is a void that causes a failure of self-identification. Fascism can arise within this void when it puts forth a uniform unified people as the only identity.

 
Global relations have eroded the power of nation-states, and thus requires a new cosmopolitan democracy to create new democratic institutions outside of individual nations. Global forms of democracy can not be an aggregate of nations since their main reason of an external threat does not apply internationally. Cosmopolitan democracy can be the best way to deal with international problems of terrorism and nuclear proliferation.

 
Simon Schama is the rare historian who is able to dramatize past events. He is the autohr of many books and the host of the series "A History of Britain" which can be considered one of the most expansive and interesting of history shows.

 
The science fiction author A.E. Van Vogt wrote about anarchistic societies in his works. The foundation of such social organization is a conscious recognition that representations of reality are not reality in itself. This recognition can lead to a more rational outlook on reality that will employ voluntary associations and an avoidance of coercion in any form.