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name: "States Change: Blakean Federalism and composition without capture"
description: "How can a federation sustain several nations without claiming the whole persons it governs? This article develops *composition without capture* through Blake's distinction between enduring persons and changing states, his accounts of national life, a..."
tags: ["william-blake", "digital-humanities", "federalism", "source-provenance"]
domain: "Art & Synergetics"
citation: "Daniel Ari Friedman (2026). *States Change: Blakean Federalism and composition without capture*. Zenodo."
doi: "10.5281/zenodo.23900616"
artifact_doi: "10.5281/zenodo.23900617"
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# States Change: Blakean Federalism and composition without capture

**Daniel Ari Friedman** (2026) · Art & Synergetics

## Context

This work addresses topics in **Art & Synergetics**: William Blake, digital humanities, federalism, source provenance.

## Methods

Primary methods and techniques applied in this work:

- **Close reading and institutional distinctions** — Separate affiliation, poetic interpretation and institutional competence; retain powers to contest and revise common forms.
- **Constructed institutional stress cases** — Study stipulated safeguards and timing constraints in hypothetical conflicts; do not treat these as field observations.

## Key Findings

Core contributions and results:

- Ten alternatives are examined against fifteen stipulated safeguards in five hypothetical conflicts.
- The constructed analyses do not describe functioning institutions or establish a political program attributed to Blake.

Methods and findings are summarized from the full text; each item is backed by a verbatim quote recorded in `metadata.json` (`evidence`, `key_findings_evidence`).

## Related Works

- [2026_BlakeanEntomology](../2026_BlakeanEntomology/)
- [2026_MappingWilliamBlake](../2026_MappingWilliamBlake/)

## Validation

Verification points for this work:

- Canonical DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23900616
- PDF SHA-256: 14be777acc438a12b0b0077fe26aa0d0c57e7d8505274dfa30c3c1f05e809c52
- Pairing confidence: needs_review
- Last checked: 2026-11-05T01:42:21Z
- Artifact DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23900617

## Prerequisites

- Familiarity with William Blake, digital humanities, federalism
- Background in Art & Synergetics fundamentals
- Access to source repository: docxology/Blakean_Federalism

## Instructions

When working with this paper:

1. Reference the DOI for citation: `10.5281/zenodo.23900616`
2. Apply methods listed in the Methods section for related analysis.
3. Validate findings against the original PDF and metadata.