... such as the homo sacer, these powers are held in a form of suspension. bare life de Beauvoir Simone natal negativity negative the absolute the actuality Arendt Hannah Aristotle Dasein Heidegger Martin metaphysics ontology potentiality being towards death finitude nihilism Hegel G W F...

..., that much of Agamben's argument in Homo Sacer rests upon, is much more slippery and ambiguous than Agamben allows. The third and fourth criticisms emerge in response to what is seen to be Agamben's overly stark, deterministic, totalising and one-sided representation of law and sovereignty...

...Homo Sacer, Giorgio Agamben’s transformative twenty-year project in political ontology, is framed at its very outset in terms of Aristotelian philosophy – read, as we will see, from a strongly medieval, Heideggerian and Arendtian perspective. As a locus classicus...

..., linguistic, and philosophical foundations of works such as Homo Sacer. Agamben traces connections between poetics and politics, logic and linguistics, philology and philosophy, extending the range and direction of critical responses into disciplines such as literary theory, linguistics...

... of espionage. This Introduction briefly surveys some influential previous work in this area – in particular Eric Hobsbawm’s notion of the ‘social bandit’ and Giorgio Agamben’s idea of the homo sacer and his related study of the ‘state of exception’ – and sets out the argument to follow...

...This chapter begins by looking at what outlawry means in a legal sense in medieval England, drawing comparisons between the characterisation of the outlaw as an excluded figure and Agamben's portrayal of the homo sacer. The representation of the outlaw in the literature...

...This short book delivers an overview of the most significant concepts and histories as presented in the Italian thinker Giorgio Agamben’s magnum opus, the nine-volume Homo Sacer series. In this celebrated work, Agamben provides a delicate and complex interweaving of his views...

... abjection yet becomes neither a terrorist nor a sovereign agent but a symptom of perpetual mind game. This comparison enables a cognitive mapping of the contemporary spy genre regarding today’s global system of sovereignty and abjection. abject abjection agent agency biopolitics homo sacer Kristeva...

...This chapter revisits the notions in Agamben’s work of sovereignty and homo sacer. It is shown that Agamben is influenced by Walter Benjamin’s idea of ‘divine violence’ as a pure mediality. Mediality is a key idea in Agamben and links up with his conception of the image, which...

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... considers how legal concepts like incorporation and dependency evolved over the years to inhibit, if not totally suppress, the formative ethos of legal pluralism. In the process, the chapter references the work of Giorgio Agamben and his notion of homo sacer...

...This article appears in the Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media edited by Carol Vernallis, Amy Herzog, and John Richardson. In Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, Giorgio Agamben provides an analysis of the “state of exception...

.... The chapter argues that policies, actions, and discourses place the person seeking asylum in the role of Agamben’s homo sacer, and in doing so such laws are a form of what Mbembe calls ‘necropolitics’ that are at odds with the claim that Britain has helped and will continue to help those...

... was rendered what Agamben refers to as homo sacer, and thus capable of being killed with impunity. Agamben Giorgio colonial violence colonized exception the Homo sacer bare life sovereign power sovereignty colonial structural violence subjectivity torture Fanon...

...Employing philosophical concepts such as homo sacer, the law of exception, the camp, bare life, and necro-politics, Joy is concerned with state surveillance of Aboriginal peoples as a tool of governance to maintain the occupation of Australia. The chapter asks what surveillance...

...This introductory chapter discusses the theme of this book, which is about the issue of post-deconstructive subjectivities in writings and films in Spain during the period from the 1960s to the 1970s. The book addresses whether the notions of ‘faithfulness to the event’ and ‘homo sacer’ apply...

...Chapter 3 engages with Giorgio Agamben’s argument that sovereignty is disclosed most directly through the ban, which places someone outside or beyond the law. His chief example is the ancient Latin figure of the homo sacer (literally, the “sacred man”), a condemned criminal who, having lost all...

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... in one of his own central projects, Homo Sacer, and comes back occasionally to Sade in other works. Adorno Theodor W Agamben Giorgio works Beauvoir Simone de Homo Sacer project series Horkheimer Max Kant Immanuel Klossowski Pierre Lacan Jacques Magritte René Man Ray revolution...

... torture victims of torture body human guinea pigs Kahrizak Prison Abu Ghraib Prison Naked life Homo sacer Society of spectacle Society of spectacle Mehdi Karrubi Hyperrealization Giorgio Agamben Shirin Neshat There is not in the world one single poor lynched bastard, one poor tortured man...