Thursday's class kept me thinking for long hours. Specially that one question PTJ asked near the end of the class...what is the optimistic reading of Schmitt? (I don't remember what he said verbatim, but this sounds about right).
Schmitt talks about neutral domains becoming political by set of processes which constructs the notion of enemy. Political trumps it all and we are left with an enemy of some sort. Though at first instance there is no positive reading of Schmitt, I think when you think throughly about what he is talking about you can find a small loophole- just by thinking backwards. How do we not have an enemy, or strip the label "enemy" from an other? Perhaps through depoliticizing the enemy?
If we know how an enemy becomes a political enemy, we can perhaps trace the brginnings of the politicization proces and neutralize the political domains, we can perhaps eliminate the label on an enemy, and possibly have them as a friend. I'm not sure whether this process eventually brings about the pacifist world Schmitt disapproves.
Food for thought.
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