..., but also allows us to reimagine forms of impotentiality in a positive light. Italo Svevo Una vita Alfonso Nitti ineptitude impotentiality inertia modernism Giorgio Agamben Many scholars have assumed that Italo Svevo’s main characters are inetti [inept people], passive figures...

...:https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) Abstract This article contributes to the scholarly discussion of the relationship between cinema and dance using Giorgio Agamben’s understanding of dance as gesture. To render Agamben’s critical framework operative...

... the Arietta Variations reflect this supplementary temporality in their own unfolding. Beethoven time listening deconstruction Giorgio Agamben Jean-Luc Nancy Who would have thought that such an innocent little phrase could provoke such controversy? Nonetheless, at one point during the famous Querelle...

... and the sovereignty of political states, racialization, and the labor needs of late industrial capitalism are addressed. Relevant theoretical concepts from scholars such as Giorgio Agamben, Walter Benjamin and Karl Marx are introduced here. The ethnographic and discursive context of immigrant discrimination...

... careful, expand the view of the surrounding environment, and lead to new solutions. Uexküll, the figure Giorgio Agamben followed into corners in which Martin Heidegger backed up animals, is at the top of a long list of researchers Bally consults on the animal side of his study. animals humans Gustav...

... public. Sensibility’s account of advocacy and sovereign answerability may be contrasted with a liberal contractual politics premised on formal equivalence and the decisionist theory of sovereignty that, for Giorgio Agamben, underlies modern biopolitics. Walter Benjamin’s negative dialectics of “natural...

... of this historical period, especially in the case of analysts such as Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, and Roberto Esposito. Considered as a whole, the essays in this volume can therefore be taken as an argument that the concept of “system” can help specify all the more concretely the ways that the “bio...

... Packham’s observations toward a biopolitical analysis by drawing on the work of Michel Foucault and the Italian philosophers Giorgio Agamben and Roberto Esposito in order both to offer a broader context for Thelwall’s hybrid project and to examine in more specific detail the conceptual mechanism...

...The introduction positions the book’s argument in relation to the twentieth-century debate on political theology, with a particular emphasis on the contemporary Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben’s recent revaluation of it. This revaluation, the introduction contends, necessitates an overhaul...

...This chapter examines the spatialities of Nazi genocidal practices. It does so by engaging with the concepts of selva and città, as inspired by Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben and drawing upon a broader tradition in human geography. Although the historical events that we recall have been...

... an examination of reactions to natural catastrophes and political upheavals, the book argues that the state of emergency that characterizes current Western culture—which is related to what Giorgio Agamben describes as a state of exception—stems from a pervasive anxiety about catastrophic events now freed from...

... Dostoevsky Fyodor protest atheism scientific atheism theodicy problem of Calvin John and Calvinism church lack of presence of Christ in poverty and the poor Protestants and Protestantism political theology sovereignty absence ascension Giorgio Agamben Carl Schmitt Erik Peterson While atheism...

...Giorgio Agamben has introduced the concept of 'destituent potential' to evade the perennial debate between reform or revolution. He argues that the rendering inoperative of political communities can destitute the hold of sovereign power over living beings. I argue that Agamben's version...

...Giorgio Agamben has drawn heavily on the letters of St. Paul and other Christian sources in order to develop his own unique interpretation of ‘messianism’ and messianic time. His reflections and use of Christian sources, however, often overlook important contextual elements and the theological...

...Humanizing Paul does not address the apostle’s allure despite the myriad evils associated with his name. This chapter explains why it is worth thinking with shit. Informed by Giorgio Agamben, the author seeks to press past the secularizing injunction to sit on the toilet with Paul to find a way...

... as a sacred text by missionaries—rather than merely interpret it, the chapter theorizes this distinction in a different key, drawing from, but also critiquing, the work of Giorgio Agamben. It shows that Agamben’s reading of Paul is problematic and reinscribes a white male reading of the apostle’s archive...

... Davis Kathleen Kaufman Eleanor Miller Nichole Reinhard Kenneth Žižek Slavoj Panofsky Erwin Bates David Moore R I Giorgio Agamben Eric Santner political theology typological damage sovereignty undead Muslim In the wake of World War I, students of European sovereignty began to ask more...

... by Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben. In particular, the infiltration of ideas about parenthood into our political thinking offers a new perspective on Connolly’s efforts to apply Agamben’s ideas regarding “bare life” to contemporary American politics. Applying this perspective to public policy along...

...This chapter focuses on the feral or wild child, as Jacques Derrida’s ethical injunction to a certain silence in the context of hospitality in relation to an extreme figure outside the law. It discusses the wild child in a political example of what Giorgio Agamben terms “inoperativity...

... and function of sovereign power at its center. The work of Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, Judith Butler, and Zygmunt Bauman shows that Schmitt’s thought is applicable to the paradox by which sovereign power of decision continues to have a latent effect under the conditions of a constitutional state. Balke...