Re: <nettime> Germany's geopolitics

[Andre Rebentisch <tabesin@gmail.com>]

For me, the most intriguing takeaway from the war is that geopolitical 
economic leverage exists, albeit in unexpected ways. It was not widely 
understood how important Ukraine would be as an agrarian exporting 
nation on the global market.

While geopolitics is useful for post-mortem analysis, it is less useful 
for future analysis: geopolitical analysis is insightful, but current 
maps/concepts are always severely outdated. In my opinion, an applicable 
solution is to draw inspiration from modern AI or neural networks, start 
with all of the raw maps and empirical big data, and then derive new 
theories from the big pile of data. Whenever an analysis is presented, 
one can see how technological shifts would change the battlefield/outcome.

One cannot fully cure geopolitics' disease, pre-conceptional bias, but 
one can distill new narratives.

In a Schmittian discourse, the term "political" has a distinct, spatial 
meaning, which makes his approach self-confirming.

How should a geopolitical analysis of "Cyberspace" be told? What should 
a nation state like Germany do to strengthen its national clout in the 
Clouds, the Internets?


-- A

Am 07.03.23 um 18:45 schrieb Pit Schultz:
>  Maps and territory don't determine political outcomes and have a very 
> limited primary function in encoding the general future.
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