What I take from Schmitt is the grim aphorism: sovereign is he who decides on the exception. It's the ground for my metabolic exceptions, and for treating the grid as the place where the decision gets made.
How the word moved
I used him in October 2025 for metabolic and energy sovereignty. The modern exception sounds like this: we will no longer connect you to the grid.
In my words
"Carl Schmitt’s grim aphorism - “Sovereign is he who decides on the exception” has haunted political theory for a century."
from Bhumics: The Weekly Planet #9: On Metabolic Sovereignty, 20 Oct 2025
Related
- Related Metabolic Exception - his exception, in metabolic terms.
- Related Energy Sovereignty - the grid is where the exception is decided.
- Related Metabolic Sovereignty - I build my sovereignty theory on his.