In Schmitt's positive view of the Monroe Doctrine...the doctrine reintroduced transnational territorial lines of demarcation into the body of international law, infusing it not just according to population and land and space and politics, but by "land people and ideas" in opposition to liberal internationalism and "Anglo-Saxon pseudo-universalism". For the older Schmitt, both the Wilsonian/UN globalism as well as Nazi Germany's Lebenstaum diluted really "genuine" Grossaume (plural) in a stable order.
The Comment on Nob was the most helpful. The interview seemed less so after being in only 40/365 of the book. Trying to explain the book in an interview must be frustrating for him.
B aims to use Schmitt as a starting point, deconstructing S's ideas to clear the way for his own. So at this level, I should probably read S first, but I'm not gonna do that and will work with B's gloss of S. Perhaps if I have specific ?s I send them your way.
So maybe an excerpt might be useful for you:
...it will be first be necessary to show how this collapse of the Schmittian distinction between land and sea (and that it implies for the ultimate career of states as they into the Cloud and The Stack) is accomplished not only by the radicalization of the "aerial" into even more vaporous "information space", but equally through a radicalization of the physical line carving into the territory and guaranteeing its own enforcement. As The Stack emerges as both the machine and the geography, the territory and the map at once, yet more smoke escapes from the ears of Schmitt's direct and indirect heirs.
This stuff is beyond my unpay level, but still it's worth mentioning what I'm reading that comes at some of the issues you're working on from a different slant. The Stack - "an interdisciplinary design brief for a new geopolitics that works with and for planetary-scale computation."
Bratton takes a starting point Carl Schmitt's idea of Nomos proposing the technological represents a new nomos beyond land, sea and air, and therefore another theater for contesting power and sovereignty.
It may be a bit afield for your endeavor, but I thought it would worthwhile for you to be aware of. Plus if you wanted to fire off a short post on Schmitt, I would find a primer helpful.
Already, B has referenced this:
The Comment on Nob was the most helpful. The interview seemed less so after being in only 40/365 of the book. Trying to explain the book in an interview must be frustrating for him.
B aims to use Schmitt as a starting point, deconstructing S's ideas to clear the way for his own. So at this level, I should probably read S first, but I'm not gonna do that and will work with B's gloss of S. Perhaps if I have specific ?s I send them your way.
So maybe an excerpt might be useful for you:
link's just to the book blurb. it's a pretty ambitious book altho he does write well even if a bit excitable from time to time.
This stuff is beyond my unpay level, but still it's worth mentioning what I'm reading that comes at some of the issues you're working on from a different slant. The Stack - "an interdisciplinary design brief for a new geopolitics that works with and for planetary-scale computation."
Bratton takes a starting point Carl Schmitt's idea of Nomos proposing the technological represents a new nomos beyond land, sea and air, and therefore another theater for contesting power and sovereignty.
It may be a bit afield for your endeavor, but I thought it would worthwhile for you to be aware of. Plus if you wanted to fire off a short post on Schmitt, I would find a primer helpful.