Author: Gareth (Gareth Williams)

Matías BeverinottiUniversity of Michigan Volume 5, 2014 El libro Speculative Fictions: Chilean Culture, Economics, and the Neoliberal Transition (2013) de Alessandro Fornazzari es un aporte que sube la apuesta a la hora de hablar del pasado reciente chileno y sus continuidades en el presente. El ensayo tiene como objetivo entender o dar un panorama al cambio económico, político...

Carl Schmitt(originally published in revista de estudios políticos 81 (1955), 3-28) Volume 5, 2014 I. Approaching the tension between Orient and Occident that so unsettles us today, we encounter an indiscriminate mix of different kinds of conflicts, along with their respective claims of evidence: economic interests, sociological differences among elites, and spiritual hostilities. Each arena reinforces and...

John D. BlancoUniversity of California, San Diego Volume 5, 2014 Carl Schmitt published “La tensión planetaria entre Oriente y Occidente y la oposición de Tierra y Mar” for the Revista de Estudios Políticos in June 1955.[2] It represents a significant revision and translation of an essay he had earlier published in German, which appeared in a collection of essays...

José RabasaHarvard University Volume 5, 2014 El arqueo-astrónomo Anthony F. Aveni concluye su contribución a la reproducción del Mapa de Cuauhtinchan núm. 2 (fig. 1) y recopilación de ensayos a cargo de Davíd Carrasco y Scott Sessions, en Cueva, ciudad y nido de águila, con las siguientes preguntas: “¿Era el MC2 un relato histórico enmarcado en un...

Rubén A. Sánchez-GodoyDedman College / Southern Methodist University Volume 5, 2014 In his essay “North America’s First Frontier” (1982), Phillip W. Powell argues that the end of the war that Spanish authorities and colonizers declared between 1550 and 1590 on indigenous groups that inhabited the region of Zacatecas in New Spain marked “the first failure of...

Annmaria ShimabukuUniversity of California, Riverside Volume 5, 2014 1. A Violation or Production of Sovereignty? This essay examines the geopolitical underpinnings of Carl Schmitt’s well-known definition of the sovereign as “he who decides the exception” (Political Theology 5) mainly through The Nomos of the Earth (1950). It is in this later work, written after Schmitt had borne witness to the liberation movements...

John PincinceLoyola University – Chicago Volume 5, 2014 If the work of Carl Schmitt can be seen as a nomothetic approach to international law and the inter-state system in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which in fact is concerned with the interwar period and the end of the liberal order—it is a Eurocentric view; it is...

Amedeo PolicanteGoldsmiths college, University of London Volume 5, 2014 The centrality of the pirate figure for the development of Carl Schmitt’s theory of international law has not yet been subjected to systematic scrutiny.[1] Nevertheless, Schmitt was well aware of how his intellectual engagement with the pirate figure had shaped much of his thinking on international law. In...

Anna MoreUniversidade de Brasília Volume 5, 2014 The recent revival of interest in Carl Schmitt’s work on politics and sovereignty has not generally been extended to his 1950 work, Der Nomos der Erde im Völkerrecht des Jus Publicum Europaeum [The Nomos of the Earth in the International Law of the Jus Publicum Europaeum].[1] This is perhaps not surprising: unlike...

Daniel NemserUniversity of Michigan Volume 5, 2014 The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the indigenous population of that continent…are all things which characterize the dawn of the era of capitalist production. These idyllic proceedings are the chief moments of primitive accumulation. (Marx 915) . . ....