In our politico‐philosophical bestiary, no monster has historically been more prominent than the Leviathan, the whale of the Book of Job, transformed by Hobbes, which has long been ubiquitous as a metaphor or as a signifier in all intellectual traditions touching upon the political. Like the state itself, we argue, the Leviathan has played an outsized role in the way we theorize and imagine relations of sovereignty in the world. This essay seeks to add a new hermeneutical creature to the bestiary: the Kraken. Said to be huge and to lurk in Norway's icy waters, the Kraken first emerged in the accounts of natural philosophers in the eighteenth century, at the very moment when political economy was becoming the premier science of governance in Europe. Leviathan is an emblem of a kind of state that no longer exists and has never existed, and it remains our most potent emblem of the state's reification, a relentlessly compelling figure that has long blinded historians to alternate sovereignties within, across, and outside the physical territories of states. From stateless financial capital to multinational corporations acting like states on the world stage, such forms of sovereignty are an essential feature of the global politics we are now living. These forms are not new, nor is their emblem: the Kraken.

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列维坦和克拉肯：州，公司和政治经济

在我们的政治哲学方面，历史上没有哪个怪物比霍维斯改造的《约伯记》的鲸鱼“利维坦”更突出，长期以来，霍布斯一直将其作为隐喻或在涉及政治的所有知识传统中的指称。 。我们认为，像国家本身一样，利维坦在我们理论化和想象世界主权关系的方式中发挥了巨大作用。本文旨在为兽人添加一种新的解释学动物：海妖。海妖号（Kraken）据说庞大且潜伏在挪威的冰冷水域中，它最初出现于18世纪自然哲学家的论述中，那时政治经济学正成为欧洲首要的治理科学。利维坦（Leviathan）是一种不再存在且从未存在过的状态的象征，它仍然是我们国家复兴的最有力标志，一个无情的，令人信服的人物，长期以来一直使历史学家对国家实体领土内部，内部和外部的主权交替视而不见。从无状态的金融资本到在世界舞台上像国家一样运作的跨国公司，这种主权形式是我们现在生活的全球政治的基本特征。这些形式不是新的，也不是它们的标志：海妖。这种主权形式是我们现在生活的全球政治的基本特征。这些形式不是新的，也不是它们的标志：海妖。这种主权形式是我们现在生活的全球政治的基本特征。这些形式不是新的，也不是它们的标志：海妖。