This special issue began life a decade ago when one of the authors was trying to complete a doctorate that linked (impossibly) legal theory, thinking about technology and science fiction together. In doing so John McCormack’s Carl Schmitt’s Critique of Liberalism:Against Politics as Technology1proved insightful in suggesting how Schmitt bridged legal and technological thought. This interest in Schmitt led to looking at Ellen Kennedy’s Constitutional Failure: Carl Schmitt in Weimar. And Kennedy mentions an early publication by a young Schmitt that was a work of fiction which described‘Buribunken...scribes and record keepers who had merge[d] with the machines that they use and the documents that they keep’...

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The Buribunks：卡尔·施密特谈日记、现代性和未来

这个特刊始于十年前，当时其中一位作者试图完成一个将（不可能）法律理论、技术和科幻小说联系在一起的博士学位。在这样做的过程中，约翰麦科马克的卡尔施密特的自由主义批判：反对作为技术的政治1在暗示施密特如何桥接法律和技术思想方面很有见地。对施密特的这种兴趣导致看艾伦肯尼迪的宪法失败：魏玛的卡尔施密特。肯尼迪提到了一个年轻的施密特的早期出版物，这是一部虚构的作品，它描述了“Buribunken......与他们使用的机器和他们保存的文件合并[d]的抄写员和记录员”......