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) . . ....
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Francisco de Vitoria, Carl Schmitt, and Originary Technicity
Orlando BentancorBarnard College Volume 5, 2014 Carlo Galli as Reader of Schmitt In this paper I take as a point of departure how Schmitt’s Eurocentric conception of modernity is based on a notion of nomos that separates Europe from its external frontier and designates the latter as an “empty space,” a concept that is then introjected into Europe...
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Reorienting Schmitt’s Nomos: Political Theology, and Colonial (and Other) Exceptions in the Creation of Modern and Global Worlds [1]
John D. BlancoUniversity of California, San Diego Ivonne del ValleUniversity of California, Berkeley Volume 5, 2014 It should never be forgotten that while colonization, with its techniques and its political and juridical weapons, obviously transported European models to other continents, it also had considerable boomerang effect on the mechanisms of power in the West, and on...