ABSTRACT This essay reads ‘The Buribunks’ as a biopolitical parody of the Hegelian dialectic. Schmitt tells us that the essence of the Buribunk is the fact that they keep a diary. For the Buribunks, this is a means of realising reason in History and through it, they become the instruments of World-Spirit. Yet the ‘noble realm’ that emerges when the Buribunks overcome the Master-Slave relationship looks more like the world of biopolitical management that we find in Foucault, than the victory of freedom and equality that, according to Hegel, characterises the post-historical state. I also argue that Schmitt's story speaks directly to some of the fundamental problems of our digital era: like the Buribunk, the digital subject enables an apparatus of surveillance by voluntarily recording the minute details of their life; the vast archive this produces then deprives the subject of the comforts offered by the myths of progressivism.

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Buribunks 的生命政治：数字档案和历史的终结

摘要 本文将《布里班克家族》解读为对黑格尔辩证法的生命政治戏仿。Schmitt 告诉我们，Buribunk 的本质是他们记日记。对于布里邦克人来说，这是在历史中实现理性的一种手段，并通过它成为世界精神的工具。然而，当布里班克家族克服主奴关系时出现的“高贵领域”看起来更像是我们在福柯那里发现的生命政治管理的世界，而不是黑格尔所说的后历史国家特征的自由和平等的胜利. 我还认为施密特的故事直接说明了我们数字时代的一些基本问题：就像布里班克一样，数字主体通过自愿记录他们生活的微小细节来启用监视装置；