<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>http://ptx.sagepub.com/content/36/4/607.abstract</div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">'Modern sovereignty is anthropocentric, constituted and organized by
reference to human beings alone. Although a metaphysical
assumption, anthropocentrism is of immense
practical import, enabling modern states to command loyalty and
resources from
their subjects in pursuit of political projects. It
has limits, however, which are brought clearly into view by the
authoritative
taboo on taking UFOs seriously. UFOs have never
been systematically investigated by science or the state, because it is
assumed
to be known that none are extraterrestrial. Yet in
fact this is not known, which makes the UFO taboo puzzling given the ET
possibility. Drawing on the work of Giorgio
Agamben, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida, the puzzle is explained
by the
functional imperatives of anthropocentric
sovereignty, which cannot decide a UFO exception to anthropocentrism
while preserving
the ability to make such a decision. The UFO can be
“known” only by not asking what it is.'</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Comments? It looks like it might just be people spinning their wheels.<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Regards,</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family:
arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Dan</div></div></body></html>