Tyrannic Modernity, Schizophrenic Vassalage: The Global Southern Ready-Made State

This book delivers a fundamental critique of the category of ‘Occidentalism,’ arguing that its contemporary revival in scholarship constitutes an epistemic fabrication. This fabrication functions to pathologize situated critiques from the Global South, thereby preserving asymmetric North–South epistemic relations and obscuring a deeper historical pathology. To diagnose this pathology, the book constructs an interdisciplinary theoretical framework centered on the figure of the Schizophrenic Vassal State. This political form is produced by two core mechanisms: the Ready-Made Modernity Paradigm—the massive export of concluded Northern institutional and epistemic forms as universal solutions—and Vicarious Conditioning—the psycho-social process whereby subaltern elites internalize a mimetic desire for recognition by observing rewarded Northern models. The cumulative outcome is Ethical Schizophrenia, a fractured collective consciousness severed from its own ethical sovereignty. The argument is demonstrated through a series of interlocking case studies that trace, via a method of traceability, the devastating effects of this global disorder: the philosophical misrecognition of Japan’s Kyoto School (Chapter II), the historical anatomy of Ottoman–Turkish mimicry (Chapter III), and the (post)colonial mirage of the Arab world (Chapter IV), where the state becomes a guardian of colonial legacies. The book culminates in a typology of pathological statehood (Chapter V), revealing a spectrum that extends from the anxious performer to the silent captive of the rentier cargo-cult. The analysis achieves its full contemporary urgency in its final movement, where the theoretical framework is projected onto the digital age to diagnose the emergence of Algorithmic Vassalage. Here, the schizophrenic vassal state evolves into a new, silent captivity enforced by the data colonialism and black-box AI of the Cloud Empire. This epilogue argues that the foreclosure of ethical sovereignty is now being perfected not by geopolitical hegemony alone, but by privatized, algorithmic infrastructures that annex human life itself, representing the terminal stage of the Ready-Made Modernity Paradigm. By integrating diagnostic political theory, psychoanalysis, and intellectual history through a method of traceability, the book demonstrates that the Schizophrenic Vassal State is not a series of local failures but the defining global pathology of our time—a pathology that culminates in the silent captivity of algorithmic vassalage, where ethical sovereignty is foreclosed not by geopolitical force alone, but by the black-box architectures of the Cloud Empire.