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Political Geography, 2007
Abstract This paper examines the geographical underpinnings of Giorgio Agamben's theory of sovereign power. Reflecting on Agamben's attempt in developing a unified theory of power, I highlight the eminently spatial nature of two of the key concepts that mark his argument: the structure of the ban and the camp as a paradigm of modern politics.
Claudio Minca
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Agamben and the Existentialists

2021
Carl Schmitt cites Søren Kierkegaard in the first chapter of Political Theology to describe the repressed theological basis of sovereign decisionism. Following Jacob Taubes, Agamben blindly accepts Schmitt’s reading of the Kierkegaardian exception, a key existentialist concept that extends well beyond Kierkegaard to the decisionist philosophies of ...
Marcos Norris, Colby Dickinson
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Conclusion: Agamben as a Reader of Agamben

2018
Thus far, the contributors to this volume have considered the many and varied bodies of work that have left their mark on Agamben’s project. In this concluding chapter, I would like to take up one final body of work that Agamben must somehow account for, if only implicitly – namely, his own. The task is more difficult than it may sound, because Agamben
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Agamben and Colonialism

2012
12 new essays evaluating Agamben's work from a postcolonial perspective Svirsky and Bignall assemble leading figures to explore the rich philosophical linkages and the political concerns shared by Agamben and postcolonial theory. Agamben's theories of the 'state of exception' and 'bare life' are situated in critical relation to the existence of these ...
Svirsky, Marcelo G, S, Bignall
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heidegger
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