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Notes towards a political theater « writing.performance

As Giorgio Agamben has shown, the excision in language precedes the literal excision from society into indefinite detention, outside of legal process. Refugee detention is not genocide, but its enabling logic follows the same path. ...

Posted 03/10/2010 at 03:21AM EST

Sade's La Philosophie dans le boudoir: A “Must” of the French ...

Schmitt's recent reception includes contributions by, among others, Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Étienne Balibar, Chantal Mouffe, and Slavoj Zizek. While neither eighteenth-century studies nor the study of the French Revolution more ...

Posted 03/10/2010 at 01:23AM EST

Obama in the Age of the Political Eschaton

[12] Giorgio Agamben's divine governance, oikonomia, insists a religious element remains central to devices and apparatuses, such may indicate a revanchist grievance beneath ideological explanation.[13] Apparatuses, for Agamben, ...

Posted 03/09/2010 at 07:00AM EST

Obama in the Age of the Political Eschaton

[12] Giorgio Agamben's divine governance, oikonomia, insists a religious element remains central to devices and apparatuses, such may indicate a revanchist grievance beneath ideological explanation.[13] Apparatuses, for Agamben, ...

Posted 03/09/2010 at 07:00AM EST

sportsBabel » Pixel to Pellicule to Projection

... will consider myself content with my work if, in attempting to locate the place and theme of testimony, I have erected some signposts allowing future cartographers of the new ethical territory to orient themselves. — Giorgio Agamben ...

Posted 03/09/2010 at 04:02AM EST

Cultural Studies and Literature Blog: Notes on Kafka's "The ...

Giorgio Agamben. “State of Exception”. Trans. Kevin Attell. The University of Chicago Press. Chicago and London. 2005. Benjamin, Walter. “Franz Kafka: On the Tenth Anniversary of His Death ”, in Illuminations, trans. Harry Zohn, ed. ...

Posted 03/07/2010 at 10:57PM EST

Cultural Studies and Literature Blog: “Bare Life”, “Bio-politics ...

In this essay I will undertake a discussion of Giorgio Agamben's notions of “bare life”, “the camp” and Foucauldian bio-politics by referring to a specific case study from Turkey, that is, the controversy of the death of Nigerian ...

Posted 03/07/2010 at 10:49PM EST

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“the genuine philosophical element in every work, whether it be a work of art, of science, or of thought, is its capacity for elaboration, which Ludwig Feuerbach defined as Entwicklungsfähigkeit” (Giorgio Agamben, The Signature of All ...

Posted 03/06/2010 at 04:38PM EST

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Cf. “the genuine philosophical element in every work, whether it be a work of art, of science, or of thought, is its capacity for elaboration, which Ludwig Feuerbach defined as Entwicklungsfähigkeit” (Giorgio Agamben, The Signature of ...

Posted 03/06/2010 at 04:38PM EST

Against Nihilism « the noise of the street enters the house

There is a fine line, in critiquing the institutions you thrive on, between nihilism and the injunction to think about them in radically different ways, especially when your critique is as far-reaching as Giorgio Agamben's in Homo Sacer ...

Posted 03/06/2010 at 03:08PM EST

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Posted 03/06/2010 at 12:07AM EST

Aporias: Text Curtain

Giorgio Agamben, political philosopher and critical theorist, writes in The Idea of Prose, “No definition of verse is perfectly satisfying unless it asserts an identity for poetry against prose through the possibility of enjambment” ...

Posted 03/03/2010 at 10:40PM EST

Text Curtain

Giorgio Agamben, political philosopher and critical theorist, writes in The Idea of Prose, “No definition of verse is perfectly satisfying unless it asserts an identity for poetry against prose through the possibility of enjambment” ...

Posted 03/03/2010 at 10:40PM EST

Astia Notes: Entrepreneur's Bill of Rights

The contemporary philosopher Giorgio Agamben, following Aristotle, remarks that the fact that we see darkness means that our eyes have not only the poten... 18 hours ago. TechCrunch » Vivek Wadhwa Can Entrepreneurs Be Made? ...

Posted 03/03/2010 at 09:45PM EST

Sachin Kamdar » Blog Archive » There is nothing without nothing.

The contemporary philosopher Giorgio Agamben: [T]he fact that we see darkness means that our eyes have not only the potential to see, but also the potential not to see. (If we had only the potential to see, we would never have the ...

Posted 03/03/2010 at 05:50AM EST

The contemporary philosopher Giorgio Agamben, following Aristotle ...

The contemporary philosopher Giorgio Agamben, following Aristotle, remarks that the fact that we see darkness means that our eyes have not only the potential to see, but also the potential not to see. (If we had only the potential to ...

Posted 03/03/2010 at 05:12AM EST

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The contemporary philosopher Giorgio Agamben, following Aristotle, remarks that the fact that we see darkness means that our eyes have not only the potential to see, but also the potential not to see. (If we had only the potential to ...

Posted 03/03/2010 at 05:12AM EST

Refugees and the State of the Human |

The status of refugees, as Giorgio Agamben asserts, is predicated on an articulation of what constitutes the human. What the refugee challenges or makes visible is not only that human rights are not naturally given but also that what is ...

Posted 03/02/2010 at 10:01PM EST

Time - Of Information and Belief

In his short work, The Time That Remains, Giorgio Agamben offers a creative grammatical (re)construction of the opening line to St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans: “Paul, called a slave of Jesus the Messiah, separated as apostle for the ...

Posted 03/02/2010 at 06:28PM EST

ArtCat - East Village / Lower East Side - Participant Inc ...

(Giorgio Agamben, “On Security and Terror,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 20, 2001). Also included will be a new series of twenty small-scale photographs, Somewhere in a great country (2010), comprised of imagery taken from ...

Posted 03/02/2010 at 12:48AM EST

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Posted 03/01/2010 at 08:06PM EST

CFP – On the irreducibility of visibilities to statements « An und ...

Organized a biopolitics conference and translated Giorgio Agamben's “L'aperto. L'uomo e l'animale” (forthcoming). Recent essays, presentations and ongoing research include “Autopsy 'in vivo': Biopolitical features regarding Wiseman's ...

Posted 03/01/2010 at 10:19AM EST

CFP – On the irreducibility of visibilities to statements « An und ...

Organized a biopolitics conference and translated Giorgio Agamben's “L'aperto. L'uomo e l'animale” (forthcoming). Recent essays, presentations and ongoing research include “Autopsy 'in vivo': Biopolitical features regarding Wiseman's ...

Posted 03/01/2010 at 10:19AM EST

Renaissance Lit: Renaissance sovereignty at Stirling

the writintgs of Carl Schmidt, and in the work of Giorgio Agamben, as well as in the work of scholars who have sought to augment and/or revise the writing of Ernst Kantorowicz. Renaissance contemporaries from Bishop ...

Posted 03/01/2010 at 09:40AM EST

Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life | blogweekend.com online ...

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Posted 03/01/2010 at 08:36AM EST

VOID MIRROR: Introduction to Giorgio Agamben's "The Coming Community"

While there are various scholars in this tradition who have intervened in the notion of community (Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard, and so on) we will keep to two - Jean-Luc Nancy and Giorgio Agamben - to reclaim the idea of community in ...

Posted 02/28/2010 at 11:12PM EST

Introduction to Giorgio Agamben's "The Coming Community"

While there are various scholars in this tradition who have intervened in the notion of community (Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard, and so on) we will keep to two - Jean-Luc Nancy and Giorgio Agamben - to reclaim the idea of community in ...

Posted 02/28/2010 at 11:12PM EST

VOID MIRROR: Introduction to Giorgio Agamben's "The Coming Community"

While there are various scholars in this tradition who have intervened in the notion of community (Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard, and so on) we will keep to two - Jean-Luc Nancy and Giorgio Agamben - to reclaim the idea of community in ...

Posted 02/28/2010 at 11:12PM EST

Seminary Co-op Bookstores, Inc. » Blog Archive » Front Table ...

Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction; Durantaye, Leland de la; ¤ Stanford University Press; ¤ Publication Date: May 4, 2009; ¤ Paperback ( 488 pages ); ¤ Category: The Environment and the People in American Cities, 1600s–1900s: ...

Posted 02/27/2010 at 06:06PM EST

OMSA Opportunities: Call for Proposals

While the notion of “the exception” appears in the work of Giorgio Agamben (1998) in relation to the space of the camp (such as the concentration camp or refugee camp), this conference is interested in “spaces of exception” broadly ...

Posted 02/27/2010 at 12:36AM EST

Arcanum or Sciencia - /mwnau

Here is a passage that exemplifies the "political theology" or political-theological approach to biopolitics that descends from Walter Benjamin's "Zur Kritik der Gewalt"/"Critique of Violence" via Giorgio Agamben {Agamben 1998@63-67}. ...

Posted 02/25/2010 at 01:07PM EST