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°The empire of the known

January 27, 2006

An excerpt from “The Empire of the Known“, I think by Erik Empson, at generation_online:

[…] Whereas in Schmitt the “omnipotent God became the omnipotent lawgiver,” in the theorisation of post-modern aleatory materialism, the multitude always unsettles representations that are based upon consent and complicity with the sovereign order. As soon as elements within the multitude act to form a people, i.e. to build upon the constituent power of the multitude to reinvent or re-authenticate the sovereign principle, they turn against it and open themselves up to a desertion in the ranks so that only the front line remains: a thin line of representation that can be sliced through and crushed. […]

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