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===Theoretical underpinnings=== | ===Theoretical underpinnings=== | ||
The term serves as a serious political statement presented in a jocular manner, a running theme in Infrared thought, which partly inspired by Zizek considers memes a serious conveyer of meaning. | The term serves as a serious political statement presented in a jocular manner, a running theme in Infrared thought, which (partly inspired by Zizek) considers memes a serious conveyer of meaning. | ||
=====Premodern sovereignty===== | =====Premodern sovereignty===== | ||
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=====The break from premodern sovereignty===== | =====The break from premodern sovereignty===== | ||
The beginning of the end for premodern politics started in the citystates of Italy. In Italy, forms of accumulation began to emerge that operated outside the feudal order. One such system was the various mercantile banks during the 14th and 15th centuries. Families like the Medicis began to deligitimize heriditary or religious claims to power by simply growing their wealth. | The beginning of the end for premodern politics started in the citystates of Italy. In Italy, forms of accumulation began to emerge that operated outside the feudal order. One such system was the various mercantile banks during the 14th and 15th centuries. Families like the Medicis began to deligitimize heriditary or religious claims to power by simply growing their wealth. This material change correpsonded to a shift in the arena of political theory. The Prince by Machiavelli was considered "the first materialist political philosophy" by Luis Althusser.<ref>Luis Althusser, Machiavelli and Us, 1999</ref> This is because Machiavelli described relations of power through a non-metaphysical lense. | ||
'Paradise Lost' by John Milton. Hegelian/Zizekian concept of the fall. | |||
After the enlightenment, the ancien regime could no longer legitimize it's own claim to power. Instead we saw the rise of 'universal politics', where everyone '''by law''' is considered an equal participant of state politics. Enlightenment and the Universal state. Open societies. | |||
This gives way to contradictions when material conditions assert themself over the pure form of liberal politics. For example, in western style democracies, we all have the true right to vote, but power itself is somewhere else; Deep states, oligarchies and burocracies. | |||
=====Malign sovereignty - The so called tyranny and authoritarianism===== | =====Malign sovereignty - The so called tyranny and authoritarianism===== | ||
In todays age, all forms of sovereignty not carried out in the liberal form are considered malign and deligitimate in the eyes of liberalism. Some even go so far as to claim that all forms of non-liberal government is fascistic. One example that Infrared has encountered is leftists and anarchists calling the sovietunion or China "red fascist" | |||
The term is also meant to invoke a critique of the established view on tyranny. | The term is also meant to invoke a critique of the established view on tyranny. |