Carl Schmitt and The Buribunks - Technology, Law, Literature (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	TechNomos
Release date:	April 2022
First published:	2022
Editors:	Edwin Bikundo • Kieran Tranter
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	364
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-54887-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Jurisprudence & philosophy of law Books > Professional & Technical > Technology: general issues > General Books > Professional & Technical > Environmental engineering & technology > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Popular culture Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > General Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Financial, taxation, commercial, industrial law > Communications law Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Social law > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General
LSN:	0-367-54887-9
Barcode:	9780367548872

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