Agamben, Giorgio (1942– ) Quick reference
A Dictionary of Critical Theory (2 ed.)
...Benjamin’s work): The Open ( 2004 ), The Kingdom and the Glory ( 2011 ), and The Highest Poverty ( 2013 ). Further Reading: K. Attell Giorgio Agamben: Beyond the Threshold of Deconstruction (2014). L. De la Durantaye Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction (2009). C. Mills The Philosophy of Agamben (2008). http://www.iep.utm.edu/agamben/ A comprehensive overview of Giorgio Agamben’s work, with references and further...
Giorgio Agamben’s Political Theory Reference library
Oliver W. Lembcke
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Communication and Critical Cultural Studies
...on Giorgio Agamben’s homo sacer (pp. 198–221). Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Nancy, J.-L. (1993). Abandoned being. In J.-L. Nancy (Ed.), The birth to presence (pp. 36–47). Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Norris, A. (2005). Introduction: Giorgio Agamben and the politics of the living dead. In A. Norris (Ed.), Politics, metaphysics, and death: Essays on Giorgio Agamben’s homo sacer (pp. 1–30). Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Norris, M. A. (2018). Existential choice as repressed theism: Jean-Paul Sartre and Giorgio Agamben in...
Hyperincarceration and Indigeneity Reference library
Thalia Anthony and Harry Blagg
The Oxford Encyclopedia of International Criminology
...designed to further the project of Indigenous extinguishment. To understand this process in the settler colonial polity we add two refinements to Wacquant’s thesis. By drawing on settler colonial theory, particularly the work of Patrick Wolfe ( 2006 ) , and the ideas of Giorgio Agamben ( 1998 ) and his notions of the “camp,” “bare life,” and “inclusive exclusion,” we argue that hyperincarceration has been employed as a strategy of colonial power designed not just to control Indigenous people but also to perpetuate settler colonial strategies of sovereign...
Framing Terrorism Reference library
Alexandra Campbell
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Crime, Media, and Popular Culture
...( 2010 ) draws on Giorgio Agamben’s ( 1995 , 2005 ) concepts of homo sacer /bare life and the state of exception to unpack the effects of this dehumanizing discourse, in particular, the way it leads to the exercise of unchecked sovereign power, as well as its legitimation. For Agamben ( 1995 ) , the deployment of sovereign power emerges precisely when legal structure is suspended, giving rise to the “state of exception.” The protagonist outside of law, and who is the target of such extralegal exceptions, is for Agamben homo sacer —or bare life...
Spatialization and Carceral Geographies Reference library
Dominique Moran
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Crime, Media, and Popular Culture
...and questions of space, place, and geography, particularly the development of the prison and the regulation of space and discipline of the body, as well as Goffman ( 1961 ) on the total institution—the prominence within contemporary critical human geography of the ideas of Giorgio Agamben about bare life and spaces of exception, where sovereign power suspends the law, producing a zone of abandonment, and the growing prominence of the work of Loïc Wacquant on hyperincarceration and the punitive turn in the United States and Western Europe. Scholarship embedded...
Decolonization of Environmental Education from the Perspective of Southern Environmental Thinking Reference library
Ana Patricia Noguera de Echeverri, Diana Alexandra Bernal Arias, and Sergio Manuel Echeverri Noguera
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Educational Administration
...in which ecocide, genocide, ethnocide, and epistemicide form a fabric of stories, some of them of love, care and respect for the land in bloom, others infamous and atrocious where life has had no value. A Vita Sacer , recalling the expression Homo Sacer developed by Giorgio Agamben ( 2010 ) , refers to the denial by the Nazis of the value of the lives of Jews. In the confrontation between ways of being and thinking, the Eurocentric idea of land as the property of humans that despises and hides the worldviews of original peoples in which humans belong to...
Neoliberalism and Communication Reference library
Peter K. Bsumek
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Communication and Critical Cultural Studies
...understanding of complex systems of economic, social, and political relations ( Clark, 2008 ). Ong ( 2006 , 2007 ) addresses this concern by proposing that neoliberalism is an “array of techniques” that should be understood in terms of exceptions. Her work is informed by Giorgio Agamben’s theorization of biopolitics as “states of exception.” She distinguishes between big “N” neoliberalism, as an ideology or political rationality characterized as “a fixed set of attributes with predetermined outcomes,” and small “n” neoliberalism as “a technology of governing...
Michel Foucault and Communication Studies Reference library
Catherine Chaput
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Communication and Critical Cultural Studies
...a lightning rod for critical communication theory. Political philosophers like Jürgen Habermas ( 1986 ) , Nancy Fraser ( 1989 ) , and Wendy Brown ( 2015 ) have taken issue with Foucault’s assessment of power’s totality, while others like Gilles Deleuze ( 1992 ) , Giorgio Agamben ( 1998 ) , and Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri ( 2000 ) have found inspiration in his biopolitics. Feminist scholars, notably Donna Haraway ( 1996 ) and Judith Butler ( 2004 ) , have put his ontology of the present to productive critical use, and others, like Roberto...
Politics of Vision in the Carceral State: Legibility and Looking in Hostile Territory Reference library
Ashley Hunt
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Crime, Media, and Popular Culture
...theories on the state of emergency, or what is revealed about the nature of the state when it suspends constitutional protections and rights in the context of what it claims as an emergency, claiming a “state of exception,” see the writings of Carl Schmitt, Walter Benjamin, Giorgio Agamben, and Sunera Thobani. 10. See accounts of Jeremy Bentham’s architectural design for the Panopticon, organized by a central tower from which guards can see out into the cells that encircle it, but into which the surrounding prisoners cannot see; by not knowing whether they’re...
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri in Communication Studies Reference library
Matthew Bost and Matthew S. May
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Communication and Critical Cultural Studies
...for the Empire trilogy. Hardt also collaborated with Paolo Virno on Radical Thought in Italy , an English-language compendium of key autonomist writings bookended by collaborative essays discussing the genesis and legacy of the movement, and he translated several works by Giorgio Agamben and other Italian intellectuals working to extend the discussion of the 1970s, as well as translating a substantial swath of Negri’s earlier writings into English. In the mid-1990s, Negri invited Hardt to collaborate on a textbook on modern sovereignty commissioned by a...
War Crimes Trials in Popular Culture: The Afterlife of Nuremberg Reference library
Valerie Hartouni
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Crime, Media, and Popular Culture
...Douglas also considers the prosecution of Adolf Eichmann by an Israeli court in 1960. Fraser, D. (2005). Law after Auschwitz: Towards a jurisprudence of the Holocaust . Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press. Fraser weaves together the insights of contemporary theorists Giorgio Agamben and Michel Foucault and critical legal theory to query the law’s relationship to the Holocaust and specifically the conventional, historically constructed and accepted notion that genocide reflects the absence of law rather than its expression. Harris, W. R. (1954). Tyranny...
homo sacer Quick reference
A Dictionary of Human Geography
...outside the law, whose life is deemed of no value and who may therefore be killed with impunity. Meaning ‘sacred man’ in Latin, the term originally referred to certain categories of person under Roman law. In recent years it has been elaborated by Italian political theorist Giorgio Agamben to explore the ways in which sovereign power relegates some persons to states of ‘bare life’, i.e. exposed to violence. Geographers interested in prisons, immigrant detention centres, and sites of extreme state violence have used and reflected on this concept ( see ...
sovereignty Quick reference
A Dictionary of Human Geography
...at Guantánamo Bay or, more generally, the detention of asylum-seekers in offshore locations, there is growing interest in the idea of sovereignty not as the source of law but as the power to suspend law. Following the ideas of German jurist and philosopher Carl Schmitt, Giorgio Agamben has explored the idea of the ‘state of exception’, often associated with national states of emergency. This can be extended to spaces of exception, sites where legal protections are withheld ( see homo sacer ). Further reading Agnew, J. (2005), ‘Sovereignty regimes:...
Ethnography Across Borders Reference library
Marta Sánchez
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods in Education
...unnecessary to suspend comparison, it may not be the primary analytic in EAB. Ethnography Across Borders as Epistemological and Ontological Deconstruction. Ethnographer and cultural theorist Mario Blaser ( 2010 ) points to the limits of comparison, and philosopher Giorgio Agamben ( Agamben & Ferrando, 2014 ) describes the limits of logos. Blaser introduces the notion of relational ontologies, which examine the ways in which one ontology becomes subordinate and the other superior. Relational ontologies are about knowing why one set of ontological...
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The [Curricular] Insights of Ivan Illich Reference library
Dana L. Stuchul and Madhu Suri Prakash
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies
...it fully. John Ohligher’s ( 1974 ) bibliography references a PhD dissertation completed by William Johnson, 1973, Ohio State University titled “Hermetic Alchemy as the Pattern for Schooling as Seen by Ivan Illich in the Works of John Amos Comenius.” 7. Philosopher Giorgio Agamben uses this expression, quoting from Walter Benjamin and apropos Illich, at the beginning of his introduction to an Italian reissue of Gender ( Illich, 1982 ), Genere , Neri Pozza Editore, 2013 , p. 7. 8. Illich gives a sense of the cultural incongruity and insensitivity...
Military, Security, and Politics in Regime Change: Explaining the Power Triangle Reference library
Hazem Kandil
Oxford Encyclopedia of the Military in Politics
...officers are beholden to the secret police. Many communist countries fit that model. Here, as Hannah Arendt put it, the security establishment becomes the “only openly ruling class” ( 1994 , pp. 425–430). They establish this by using security prerogatives to maintain what Giorgio Agamben described as a “permanent state of emergency,” turning policing and intimidation techniques into the mainstay of everyday governance ( 2005 , p. 2). In this scenario, the hostility between the military and security becomes an open secret. Stoking the paranoia of political...
Australia: Expanding and Applying the Field of Civil–Military Relations Reference library
Ben Wadham and Willem de Lint
Oxford Encyclopedia of the Military in Politics
...dissent: How the Australian government is controlling public opinion and stifling debate . Sydney, New South Wales: Allen & Unwin. Hayek, F. A. (2014). The road to serfdom: Text and documents . Abingdon, UK: Routledge. Humphreys, S. (2006). Legalizing lawlessness: On Giorgio Agamben’s state of exception. European Journal of International Law , 17 (3), 677–687. Huntington, S. (1957). The soldier and the state: The theory and politics of civil–military relations . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Janowitz, M. (1975). Essays in the institutional...
bare life Quick reference
A Dictionary of Critical Theory (2 ed.)
...life ( nuda vita ) Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben ’s concept for life that has been exposed to what he terms the structure of exception that constitutes contemporary biopower . The term originates in Agamben’s observation that the Ancient Greeks had two different words for what in contemporary European languages is simply referred to as ‘life’: bios (the form or manner in which life is lived) and zōē (the biological fact of life). His argument is that the loss of this distinction obscures the fact that in a political context, the word ‘life’...
homo sacer Quick reference
A Dictionary of Critical Theory (2 ed.)
...man’, this classical concept has attracted significant attention in contemporary critical theory because Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has devoted several books to exploring the intricacies of its multi-layered meaning. Homo sacer is a paradoxical figure: it is the one who may not be sacrificed, yet may be murdered with impunity. In this sense, the homo sacer is outside or beyond both divine and human law. Agamben’s provocative thesis is that the homo sacer is evidence not merely of an original ambivalence in the notion of the sacred, as...
citizen Quick reference
A Dictionary of Critical Theory (2 ed.)
...the land, and to perform such duties as are asked; failure to do so can result in citizenship being withdrawn. This obligation is usually thought of as mutual in that by virtue of your being a citizen the state is required to treat you in a certain way, but as the work of Giorgio Agamben , among others, has shown, the state retains the right to make exceptions, and thereby negate the very rights it is supposed to guarantee. Further Reading: R. Bellamy Citizenship: A Very Short Introduction ...
