ABSTRACT
The careful insights of Carl Schmitt’s Die Buribunken resonate so strongly with the dominant post millennial Weltanschauung that it could be supposed that he was prophetic rather than merely philosophical. Indeed, the Buribunken project has so clearly established itself in the Lebenswelt that it would seem that world history is being written backwards. The ‘heightened self-awareness’ of a great life demonstrated by Ferker is now the model of the post-millennial, so that ‘every single one of [their] seconds can be recorded’ – not in an ink-written diary, but in a digital image. The temporal distortion of ‘history’ and ‘present’ should not disturb us – even though the ink immortalising Ferker’s cremated remains will, in the course of time, be digitised and take its place among the modern artefacts of history (if this has not already been done). The surveillance facilitated by Schnekke to result in historico-philosophical self-reflection built upon ink to incorporate film, photographs, and certainly implicitly, ejusdem generis, digitisation. There is a paradox in Buribunkian success, however. This chapter will consider the negative space at the heart of Buribunkdom – the loss of the unrecorded moment.
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Notes on contributor
Francine Rochford is an Associate Professor in the School of Law at La Trobe University. As a former dairy farmer she has long been interested in the relationship between the recorded moments filling the ‘light-filled temple of history’ and actual productive work. As a scholar she has long been interested in the paradoxical expansion of the domain of the written word and the diminution of the time left to read. As a university employee she has often speculated about the final outcome of the audit culture, and the eventual loss of the reflective space.
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24 Nardi, Schiano, Gumbrecht and Swartz (Citation2004), p 44.
52 Matthew (26:11). The contested authorship of the Biblical texts may, perhaps, represent a primitive form of interactive Buribunkdom?
53 See, for instance, Yingshuai (Citation2015) in the Chinese context.
54 Captain America: Civil War.
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