This is true not only with respect to the territorial machine, and to local groups that determine the place of each member in social economic reproduction, according to one's status from the standpoint of the alliances and the filiations, but also with respect to the despotic machine, which adds the relations of the new alliance and direct filiation to the old alliance and filiations (whence the role of the sovereign's family in despotic overcoding, and that of the dynasty whatever its mutations, its indecisions which are inscribed under the same category of new alliance).