Abstract Focusing on the small state of Sealand, a platform built off the English Essex coast to carry anti-aircraft guns during the Second World War, this article posits the North Sea as a particular geopolitical condition based on its status as a “state of exception.” The article formulates its reading by considering the architectural legacy of the pirates, privateers and hackers who have been the principle rulers of the terrain. Their spatial strategies are understood not only in terms of physical constructions that accommodate exceptional functions, but also as a conceptual apparatus that facilitates extraterritorial juridical practices. The spatio-juridical characteristics of the “architecture of the sea” are seen to offer new possibilities for ordering the distribution of goods, capital and information, and for alternative forms of living.1

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Sealand 与海洋建筑：从反空间到反文化

摘要 本文针对二战期间在英国埃塞克斯海岸建造的用于携带高射炮的平台西兰岛（Sealand），基于北海作为“例外状态”的地位，将其定位为一种特殊的地缘政治条件。 。” 这篇文章通过考虑作为该地区主要统治者的海盗、私掠者和黑客的建筑遗产来制定其阅读方式。他们的空间策略不仅被理解为适应特殊功能的物理结构，而且被理解为促进域外司法实践的概念装置。“海洋建筑”的空间法律特征被视为为安排货物、资本和信息的分配以及替代生活方式提供了新的可能性。 1