Part I: Introducing The Buribanks 1 The Buribunks as law, technology and literature Kieran Tranter and Edwin Bikundo 2 The Buribunks: An essay on the philosophy of history Carl Schmitt, translated from the German by Gert Reifarth and Laura Petersen 3 Behind the words of Die Buribunken : Translators' comments Laura Petersen and Gert Reifarth Part II: The Buribunks as typeset 4 The Buribunks , post-truth and a tentative cartography of informational existence Kieran Tranter 5 The theological-bureaucratic science fiction of Philip K. Dick and Carl Schmitt: An economic theology of omniscience in The Buribunks Timothy D. Peters 6 Inauthentic temporality and the age of hyperburibunkism Richard Polt 7 Megarianism, emancipation and the (im)potentiality of political ontology: A commentary on freedom in Schmitt's dystopia Michael P.A. Murphy 8 The challenges of anti-intellectual parody Karen Petroski 9 'Quantity turns into quality': Breathing life into dead scholasticism Francine Rochford Part III: The Buribunks as writing 10 On writing. Under control. The Buribunks and the autographic society of control Vittorio Lubrano 11 Modernist life-writing and early cinema in Carl Schmitt's The Buribunks Joseph Owen 12 'Die Buribunken' - a pastiche: A mechanised modernity failing Hegel and Kierkegaard Nour Benghellab 13 Sola scriptura : Doubling of life and critique of modernity in The Buribunks Ernesto C. Sferrazza Papa 14 Schmitt's Roman links in The Buribunks : Enriching the satire Karen Schultz Part IV: The Buribanks as part of Schmitt's wider oeuvre 15 Mephistophelean irony in Carl Schmitt's Political Romanticism , The Buribunks and Ex Captivitate Salus Desmond Manderson and Edwin Bikundo 16 Imagined facts, actual enemies: The Buribunks and the political Attila Gyulai 17 Between The Buribunks and the Christian Epimetheus Fabrizio Grasso and Matteo Negro, translated by Carla Biondi 18 Schmitt's life within the academy since 2001 Lachlan Robb, Charles Lawson, Catherine Pickering and Edwin Bikundo.