ABSTRACT

Traditional understandings of extraterritoriality have overlooked human consciousness as an intimate province of territorial governance. Whereas traditional approaches to extraterritoriality often adopt a modernist understanding of territory, this article expands on the concept by referring to extraterritoriality as the process and practice of discovering, reifying and intervening in new domains of territorial governance. Insofar as territorial practices adapt in accordance with emergent knowledges and technologies, the realm of human consciousness appeared as an object of governmental interest during the mid-twentieth century alongside advances in neuroscience and psychopharmacology. Through the subsequent illegalisation of psychedelic plants and fungi, in combination with the hegemonic norms established through disciplinary institutions, the full spectrum of human consciousness has since become territorialised as a new domain of governmental intervention and management. As such, this article argues that the regulation of cognition enforced through drug prohibitions and sanctions enfold human consciousness as an extended domain of extraterritoriality.

摘要

对治外法权的传统理解忽视了作为领土治理的亲密领域的人类意识。传统的治外法权方法通常采用现代主义对领土的理解，本文扩展了这一概念，将治外法权称为发现、具体化和干预新领土治理领域的过程和实践。就领土实践根据新兴知识和技术进行调整而言，人类意识领域在 20 世纪中叶随着神经科学和精神药理学的进步而成为政府关注的对象。通过随后将迷幻植物和真菌非法化，结合通过纪律机构建立的霸权规范，从那时起，人类意识的所有领域都被划为一个新的政府干预和管理领域。因此，本文认为，通过禁毒和制裁强制执行的认知调节将人类意识作为域外法权的扩展领域。