Sunday, August 17, 2008

Mars needs lawyers

A post on the First Things blog brings to our attention an abstract for an article in a journal called Political Theory. The article is about UFOs and sovereignty, and the abstract includes the following sentence:
Drawing on the work of Giorgio Agamben, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida, the puzzle is explained by the functional imperatives of anthropocentric sovereignty, which cannot decide a UFO exception to anthropocentrism while preserving the ability to make such a decision.

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