ABSTRACT Die Buribunken by Carl Schmitt is an uncommon philosophical piece rarely read by non-specialists. Still, with regard to both style – expressionist, satirical, ironic, allusive (2) – and content it exhibits subtle connections with our time and surprising peculiarities that could easily turn it into an unexpected classico. This essay aims to shed a new light on Schmitt’s text, focusing on the act of writing as a procedure for cultural and political control (3.1). The description of life is not a folkloric or neutral aspect of Buribunken society but an inscription of a social norm that affects our being and covers with noble claims of scientific progress the continuous reduction of every element of vitality (3.2). In contrast with traditional conceptions of writing, as both means and end (to reflect on the self and to influence civil progress), a new paradigm is displayed. Paradoxically the subject of writing becomes completely depersonalised and dispossessed by the same activity that was supposed to lead him to his own subjectivity (3.3). Die Buribunken can be reactivated in this respect as a political and cultural fabula for the contemporary reader. Not only as a disillusioned manifesto on the crisis of modernity, nor simply as a sarcastic attempt to depict a hierarchical and excluding society. The interpretation proposed here argues that Schmitt anticipated phenomena such as automatisation, spectacularisation, self-referentiality, mortification of the living, which all share the tendency to orient life coercively into the sphere of information – with the contrary effect of degrading it (4). Whence the urgent need for a radical rethinking of the Humanities, in order to face the long and provocative shadow cast on us by the Buribunkology, so as to renew our understanding of life without reducing it to control and manipulation (5).

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关于写作的常态：日常生活的铭文/描述

摘要 Carl Schmitt 的 Die Buribunken 是一篇罕见的哲学著作，非专业人士很少阅读。尽管如此，关于表现主义、讽刺、讽刺、暗示 (2) 和内容这两种风格，它都表现出与我们时代的微妙联系和令人惊讶的特性，很容易把它变成一个意想不到的经典。本文旨在为施密特的文本提供新的思路，重点关注作为文化和政治控制程序的写作行为 (3.1)。对生活的描述不是 Buribunken 社会的民俗或中性方面，而是影响我们存在的社会规范的铭文，并用科学进步的崇高主张覆盖了每一个活力元素的不断减少（3.2）。与传统的写作观念相比，作为手段和目的（反思自我和影响公民进步），展示了一种新的范式。矛盾的是，写作的主题变得完全去个性化，并被本应引导他走向自己的主体性的同一活动所支配（3.3）。Die Buribunken 在这方面可以重新激活，作为当代读者的政治和文化寓言。不仅作为对现代性危机的幻灭宣言，也不仅仅是作为描绘等级和排斥社会的讽刺尝试。这里提出的解释认为，施密特预见到了诸如自动化、壮观化、自我参照、生活的屈辱等现象，这些现象都具有将生活强制性地导向信息领域的趋势——相反的效果是降低它（4）。