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Politics of ‘Bitnik Existence’ and Cyberspace -Focusing on Carl Schmitt’s Conception of ‘Technology-Space-Existence’-
Journal of Humanities
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This study aims to construct a theoretical frame by gathering the criticisms fragmentarily made by Carl Schmitt in his several writings about technological issues. In his discussions, Schmitt, consistently, relates the matters of ‘technology’ with those of ‘space’ and ‘existence’: according to him, development of a new technology always brings a new space into civilization; and human beings who begin to live on it could construct their existence in a new way accordingly. This can be simply formulated as ‘technology-space-existence’. In this study, by applying the frame of ‘technology-space-existence’ to the trajectory of the development of today’s Information Technology, I concluded that civil society is getting vulnerable to the populist movement, or populism-friendly, while the tension among the nomoi of the earth (whereon Cloud Data Centers or servers are located) is rising with the advent of cyberwarfare. However, this tendency is not expected to ignite absolute antagonism in the international society because the very identities of the war agencies are, mostly, based on raison d’etat (which, unlike revolutionary dogma, limits its goal to regional hegemony or national interest). Furthermore, the more online and offline convergence is achieved by the centralization of data (which is produced by entire digital utility) processing throughout the large-scale Data Centers or servers, the lesser civil society would have its control over cyberwarfare; on the other hand, thanks to the invisible and irregular characters of cyberwarfare, the administration may have much chance to increase its power to exercise control over civil society.
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