Jorjani's political manifesto: the sovereign is the one who decides the exception, applied to the whole planet, the argument that the coming technological and eschatological convergence requires thinking sovereignty at world scale.
Documented
The stated argument
World State of Emergency (Arktos, 2017) is the primary text: drawing on Carl Schmitt's definition of sovereignty, Alexandre Kojeve's vision of a universal and homogeneous state, and Heidegger's critique of technics, it argues that planetary crisis, ecological, technological, eschatological, forces the emergence of world sovereignty, and that the only question is which civilization's metaphysics writes its constitution.
Assessment: Documented: the book and its declared sources, Schmitt, Kojeve, Heidegger. The argument is political philosophy, published and attributed.
Stories
The forbidden footnotes
The documented problem: the book's lineage runs through Schmitt, jurist of the Third Reich, and the Tradition current, Evola, whose politics the author shares enough to publish with Arktos, the press he co-edited. Defenders call it engagement with dangerous ideas; critics call it the ideas. The archive notes the genealogy is printed on the cover, not hidden.
Assessment: Stories: the sources are cited openly, which is either intellectual honesty or a declaration. Possibly both.
Interesting claims
The exception machine
The structural reading: a state of emergency is the rule's confession that it cannot rule, and proposing a permanent planetary one proposes a sovereignty that never ends its own crisis. Every empire in the archive eventually declared emergency permanent. Rome's crisis became the Dominate; the Reich's became the regime. The pattern is the warning.
Assessment: Interesting: the historical pattern of permanent emergencies is documented. The book proposes the pattern as design.
Sources and further reading
Jason Reza Jorjani, World State of Emergency, Arktos, 2017 (claim's primary text)
Carl Schmitt, Political Theology, 1922 (the sovereign decision on the exception)
Alexandre Kojeve, Outline of a Phenomenology of Right (the universal and homogeneous state)
Martin Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology, 1954 (the emergency of technics)
Worth asking
When the exception goes global, who is the sovereign?