云法、堆栈与行星计算——解读布拉顿的肯定性生命政治学

Nomos of Cloud,Stack and Planetary Computation——Reading of Bratton’s Affirmative Biopolitics

本雅明·H.布拉顿坚持了一种不同于传统左翼知识分子的批判路线,他从卡尔·施米特的《大地的法》出发,认为存在着像威斯特伐利亚公约体系下的民族国家对全球领土秩序的规则那样,在数据的云世界中,也存在着一种云法,这种云法构成了今天数字治理的地缘政治学的基础。在此基础上,数据云构成了一种数据平台的堆栈结构,堆栈是行星规模计算的基础,而通过行星规模的计算,实现了可以面对新冠疫情之类的全球性灾难的应对机制。这需要走出传统左翼知识分子的否定性生命政治学的框架,建立一种以云法、堆栈和行星计算为主要框架的肯定性生命政治学,而这种生命政治学也让我们在政治上得以进化,摆脱新自由主义的抽象个体模式,建构一种面对未来的全球能力。

Benjamin H. Bratton adheres to a critical line that differs from that of traditional left-wing intellectuals,starting from Carl Schmitt’s Der Nomos der Erde and arguing that there exists,in the same way that the nation-state under the Westphalian Convention system has rules for the global territorial order,in the cloud world of data,there also exists a cloud law that forms the basis of the geopolitics of digital governance today. On this basis,the data cloud constitutes a kind of stack structure of data platforms,where the stack is the basis for planetary scale computing,and through planetary scale computing,a coping mechanism that can face global disasters like the COVID-19 epidemic is achieved. This requires us to move out of the traditional left-wing intellectual framework of a negative biopolitics and build an affirmative biopolitics with nomos of cloud,stacks and planetary computing as the main framework,and this biopolitics also allows us to evolve politically,to move away from the abstract individual model of neoliberalism and to construct a global capacity to face the future.