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Review: Giorgio Agamben, Creation and Anarchy: The Work of Art and the Religion of Capitalism

, 2020
Having closely followed Giorgio Agamben’s writings for some years, I welcomed the chance to critically evaluate his Creation and Anarchy for this journal.
Donald Preziosi
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Giorgio Agamben’s Critique of the Covid-19 Response has Little to Do with Biopolitics

Critical Horizons
Giorgio Agamben claims that the aggressive coronavirus response in Italy turned the nation’s entire population into formless bare life, which was cast out from meaningful human existence through a sovereign exception.
Samuel Lindholm
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The Dilemma of Democracy: Collusion and the State of Exception

Studies in Social Justice, 2011
In what sense might the authoritarian practices and suspension of legal norms as means to combat the supposed threat of “terrorism,” within and by contemporary western democratic states, be understood as a problem of and not for democracy?
Mark McGovern
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Agamben’s Two Missing Factors: Understanding State of Emergency through Colonialism and Racial Doctrine

Historia i Polityka, 2021
The ideas of state of exception and sovereignty presented by Italian political philosopher Giorgio Agamben in the aftermath of post September 11 context generated a new discourse in the realms of public law and political philosophy on how law and its ...
Punsara Amarasinghe, Sanjay Kumar Rajhans   +1 more
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‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
wiley   +1 more source

Sessió 7

, 2014
Setena sessió del seminari de Giorgio Agamben "Archeologia della politica" , organitzat per la Càtedra Ferrater Mora3390.mp4 3390 ...
Agamben, Giorgio
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A minor biopolitics. Interview with Giorgio Agamben

ANOTHER ONE
The political potential of Giorgio Agamben's intellectual legacy is a long-standing topic of discussions. Agamben is primarily known for his concept of biopolitics, which significantly expands the scope of Michel Foucault's application of this concept ...
G. Agamben
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MIRACLE URBANIZATION: Spatial Production and Political Legitimation in the Sochi 2014 and Beijing 2022 Olympics

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract From desert ski resorts to subtropical Winter Games, there is a global proliferation of ‘mission‐impossible’ mega‐projects. The prevailing frameworks of city branding and urban entrepreneurism fail to explain the political logics behind these seemingly irrational projects.
Yiqiu Liu, Sven Daniel Wolfe
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Life in the plague times

Inscriptions, 2021
In early 2020, Agamben asked a number of important moral and political questions concerning the global response to coronavirus. The response was heated; sufficiently so to prompt the editors of Inscriptions to ask whether that response had not, “put our ...
Simon Smith
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VOID URBANISM: Unbuilt New Cities and State Formation in the Democratic Republic of Congo

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Based on an analysis of the planning process behind Kitoko City in the Democratic Republic of Congo—a new city project officially launched in 2019 but never implemented—this article examines the political, social, and spatial effects generated by urban initiatives that remain at the stage of intention. It investigates how such unbuilt projects
Patrick Belinga Ondoua
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