This article elucidates the spatial order that underpins the politics of the Anthropocene – the ecological nomos of the earth – and criticizes its imperial origins and legacies. It provides a critical reading of Carl Schmitt’s spatial thought to not only illuminate the spatio-political ontology but also the violence and usurpations that characterize the Anthropocene condition. The article first shows how with the emergence of the ecological nomos seemingly ‘natural’ spaces like the biosphere and the atmosphere became politically charged. This challenges the modernist separation between natural facts and political norms. It then underlines the imperial origins of this nomos by introducing the concept of air-appropriation understood as the colonization of atmospheric space by CO2 emissions. Instead of assuming that the ecological nomos represents a transition from a colonial to an ecological and cosmopolitan world order, focusing on air-appropriation highlights forms of ecological imperialism that go along with the new nomos. Accordingly, the article calls for a just redistribution of ecospace that takes into account the imperial legacies and ongoing effects of air-appropriation.

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空中侵占：人类世的帝国起源和遗产

这篇文章阐明了人类世政治的基础-人类的地球生态学-的空间秩序，并批评了人类的起源和遗产。它提供了对卡尔·施密特的空间思想的批判性解读，不仅阐明了时空政治本体论，而且阐明了人类世情况的暴力和篡夺行为。文章首先显示了随着生态法则的出现，似乎是“自然”的空间（如生物圈和大气层）如何在政治上引起了人们的关注。这挑战了自然事实与政治规范之间的现代主义分离。然后，通过引入空气吸收的概念（即二氧化碳排放对大气空间的殖民化），强调了这种正当性的帝国起源。与其假设生态正统代表着从殖民地到生态世界主义的世界秩序的过渡，不如说是对空中侵略的关注强调了新帝国主义伴随而来的生态帝国主义形式。因此，该条呼吁对生态空间进行公正的重新分配，同时考虑到帝国遗产和空中侵占的持续影响。