GEOG 345 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Biopolitics, Biopower, Homo Sacer
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He tried to identify the limits of capital and that it depends on the production of space --> through marxist views. Space is one of the crucial ways in which capitalist is affected by (it may cause capitalism to collapse) Capitalism produces a space that is always uneven --> capitalism is essentially something that is always in constant motion and process = this is how social life takes place. Carl schmitt and the exception --> a german jurist (legal scholar where his writings influenced the law), he joined the nazi party and became the president of the union of national-socialist. Political theology --> a book where schmitt was investigating the way in which religion (particularly the sacral) intervened in political. He is saying that the state"s ability to command it"s loyalty of the citizens were executed by using a "higher" order and purpose (essentially via theological concepts)
