Carl Schmitt and The Buribunks

Technology, Law, Literature

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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In 1918 a young Carl Schmitt published a short satirical fiction entitled The Buribunks. He imagined a future society of beings who consistently wrote and disseminated their personal diaries. Schmitt would go on to become the infamous philosopher of the exception and for a while the ‘Crown Jurist of the Third Reich’. The Buribunks – ironically for beings that lived only for self-memorialisation – has been mostly lost to history. However, the digital realm, with its emphasis on the informatic traces generated by human doing, and the continual interest in Schmitt’s work to explain and criticise contemporary constellations of power, suggests that The Buribunks is a text whose epoch has come.This volume includes the first full translation into English of The Buribunks and a selection of critical essays on the text, its meanings in the digital present, its playing with and criticism of the literary form, and its place within Schmitt’s life and work. The Buribunks and the essays provide a complex, critical and provocative invitation to reimagine the relations between the human and their imprint and legacy within archives and repositories. There is a fundamental exploration of what it means to be a being intensely aware of ‘writing itself’.This is not just a volume for critical lawyers, literary scholars and the Schmitt literati. It is a volume that challenges a broad range of disciplines, from philosophy to critical data studies, to reflect on the digital present and its assembled and curated beings. It is a volume that provides a set of fantastically located concepts, images and histories that traverse ideas and practices, play and politics, power and possibility.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-01-29
Mått156 x 234 x 20 mm
Vikt700 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieTechNomos
Antal sidor364
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9780367548919

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Kieran Tranter is chair of law, technology and future in the School of Law, Queensland University of Technology. Kieran researches the legalities of technology and the technologies of legality. His current projects concern the motor vehicle in the governance of the Australian settler state, mobile connectivity and everyday life in the Global South.Edwin Bikundo is a senior lecturer in the Law Futures Centre, Griffith Law School, Griffith University. Edwin’s research addresses international and comparative law, legal theory, and law and the humanities. He is currently finalising a book about Giorgio Agamben, international law and JohanWolfgang von Goethe’s Faust.

Part I: Introducing The Buribanks1 The Buribunks as law, technology and literatureKieran Tranter and Edwin Bikundo2 The Buribunks: An essay on the philosophy of historyCarl Schmitt, translated from the German by Gert Reifarth and Laura Petersen3 Behind the words of Die Buribunken: Translators’ commentsLaura Petersen and Gert ReifarthPart II: The Buribunks as typeset4 The Buribunks, post-truth and a tentative cartography of informational existenceKieran Tranter5 The theological-bureaucratic science fiction of Philip K. Dick and Carl Schmitt: An economic theology of omniscience in The BuribunksTimothy D. Peters6 Inauthentic temporality and the age of hyperburibunkismRichard Polt7 Megarianism, emancipation and the (im)potentiality of political ontology: A commentary on freedom in Schmitt’s dystopiaMichael P.A. Murphy8 The challenges of anti-intellectual parodyKaren Petroski9 ‘Quantity turns into quality’: Breathing life into dead scholasticismFrancine RochfordPart III: The Buribunks as writing10 On writing. Under control. The Buribunks and the autographic society of controlVittorio Lubrano11 Modernist life-writing and early cinema in Carl Schmitt’s The BuribunksJoseph Owen12 ‘Die Buribunken’ – a pastiche: A mechanised modernity failing Hegel and KierkegaardNour Benghellab13 Sola scriptura: Doubling of life and critique of modernity in The BuribunksErnesto C. Sferrazza Papa14 Schmitt’s Roman links in The Buribunks: Enriching the satireKaren SchultzPart IV: The Buribanks as part of Schmitt’s wider oeuvre15 Mephistophelean irony in Carl Schmitt’s Political Romanticism, The Buribunks and Ex Captivitate SalusDesmond Manderson and Edwin Bikundo16 Imagined facts, actual enemies: The Buribunks and the politicalAttila Gyulai17 Between The Buribunks and the Christian EpimetheusFabrizio Grasso and Matteo Negro, translated by Carla Biondi18 Schmitt’s life within the academy since 2001Lachlan Robb, Charles Lawson, Catherine Pickering and Edwin Bikundo

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