Still Life with Gingerpot [2], Piet Mondrian (Date: 1912)
1st elemental definition
Can all the earliest cities and states in Western Asia between 4000-1000 BC really be conceptualised as corresponding to something unprecedented in the world — the ‘administered societies’? Such a concept would depend on the development of considerably organised governance to the extent that an administrative core is formed within society, and to the extent that this core becomes very distinctly differentiated from society itself. Geometrically we can picture the core as a substantial new circle growing within the bordered circle that depicts society. The governing inner circle, the core, acquires momentums and dynamics of its own making and composition.
Within it are formed ‘organisations’.
As authority structures become organised they acquire separate more or less specialised functions. The important word for a description of ‘administered society’ is ‘organisation’ in the noun form—‘the organisation’—as…