November 23, 2004
Naked Bandit/Here, Not Here
Global information technologies (Satellite, GPS und Data Surveillance) are producing new territorial principles of order, new logics of space and are constituting forms of transnational power and sovereignty.
Transnational sovereignty is emerging from permanent processes of exclusions and inclusions of territories and people on a global scale.
Extraterritoriality describes a logics of space which is defined outside of the state and it’s law systems but are yet controlled by the referring state power and sovereignty.
Extra-territorialities are constructed as “non-publics” which are external to the existing protocols which govern our civil conflicts.
These means zones in which legal status can be suspended, in which citizenship is invalidated, in which the assumption of innocence is thrown away, in which representation is denied. Any person or territory is in the context of the ”war of terror” under permanent threat of being excluded, becoming an unlawful subject or an extraterritoriality.
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