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Exopolitics
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Public Announcement: Exopolitics Comment on
Groundbreaking Sovereignty and the UFO Paper
[Kona, Hawaii, 8/19/08 - Exopolitics.Org]
UFOs, Sovereignty and Politics
"UFO ignorance is political rather than
scientific"- that's the conclusion of
two prominent university professors who had
the results of their research on UFOs
published in the
August 2008 edition of Political Theory.
It was the first time a major political
science journal had published an article
dealing with the UFO phenomenon so it has
predictably sparked controversy in the
academic world. The joint authors of "Sovereignty
and the UFO," are Alexander Wendt, Professor
of International Security at Ohio State
University; and Professor Raymond Duvall,
Chair of Political Science at the University
of Minnesota. Their article breaks new
ground in opening up for academic debate the
way in which evidence of UFOs has not been
seriously analyzed in the modern era. Their
main argument is that this is due to a "metaphysical
threat" that UFOs pose to the sovereignty of
modern states. This threat comes not from
the reality of UFOs as an inexplicable
physical phenomenon that ultimately have
mundane explanations, but the implicit
assumption that UFOs are intelligently
guided vehicles controlled by
extraterrestrial intelligences (the
extraterrestrial hypothesis).
Continued at:
http://exopolitics.org/Exo-Comment-78.htm
The abstract of the article:
Modern sovereignty is
anthropocentric, constituted and organized
by reference to human beings alone. Although
a metaphysical assumption, anthropocentrism
is of immense practical import, enabling
modern states to command loyalty and
resources from their subjects in pursuit of
political projects. It has limits, however,
which are brought clearly into view by the
authoritative taboo on taking UFOs seriously.
UFOs have never been systematically
investigated by science or the state,
because it is known a priori that
none are extraterrestrial. Yet in fact this
is not known, which makes the UFO taboo
puzzling given the ET possibility. Drawing
on the work of Giorgio Agamben, Michel
Foucault, and Jacques Derrida, the puzzle is
explained by the functional imperatives of
anthropocentric sovereignty, which cannot
decide a UFO exception to anthropocentrism
while preserving the ability to make such a
decision. The UFO can be “known” only by not
asking what it is.
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